It ruled a wide-reaching empire. This week in our series, we look at how British power gave way to American influence after World War Two.

VOA: special.2011.08.04

Historians agree Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman Empire - what was to become Turkey - during World War I.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

Suny explains that during the First World War, the Ottoman Empire sided with Germany and was thus at war with Russia and most of Europe.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18