Turkey's Beyazit Public Library is working on a project worth 3.5 million Turkish liras ($419,470) to digitalize its vast body of resources, the library's acting director said Tuesday. Beyazit is the oldest public library in present-day Turkey, opened on June 24, 1884 by a decree of Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II. Its original name, Kutuphane-i Umumi-i Osmani (Ottoman Public Library), was changed to Beyazit Public Library with the decision of the ...