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From Slave to Career Woman
The story of a Russian slave who used the harem as a springboard to power in the Ottoman Empire.
British Woman Formed Modern Iraq
A key shaper of today's Iraq was a powerful British woman who knew the value of Iraqi oil and advised Winston Churchill not to give power to the Shiites.
Armenian Martyrs' Day
On April 24, 1915, in Constantinople, the Young Turks began the ethnic cleansing, or genocide, of the Turkish Armenian population.