How Same-Sex Love for Young Men Gave Way to Love for Girls in 19th-Century Istanbul
Ottoman historian Cevdet Pasha on how the Crimean War changed the customs of the elite.
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The Same-Sex Attraction of Ottoman Vizier and Poet Ahmed Pasha to the Sultan’s Page
How a scandal at Mehmed II’s court ruined a vizier’s career and how poems saved his life.
Three 18th-Century Ottoman Homosexual Miniatures from a Manuscript of Atâyî’s Poems
An 18th-century Ottoman manuscript: how love between men was judged, mocked, and celebrated in the empire.
Was Atatürk Gay or Bisexual?
What memoirs, biographies, and British intelligence reports say about the sexuality of Turkey's founder.
The 16th-Century Ottoman Poem “Shah and the Beggar” About Love Between Men
Taşlıcalı Yahya Bey’s homoerotic allegory of a poor man’s passion for a noble beauty.
The Homosexuality of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror
Byzantine chronicles on the sultan’s desire for youths and on Radu the Handsome, Dracula’s brother.
