Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 1900s.
- noun A young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party.
- noun A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.
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- noun Alternative form of
young Turk .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a young radical who agitates for reform
- noun a member of one or more of the insurgent groups in Turkey in the late 19th century who rebelled against the absolutism of Ottoman rule
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Examples
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Cenkâs 6 p.m. slot is now going to Al Sharpton -- MUUUUCH safer -- but not before the Young Turk threw a few haymakers. âI think sometimes MSNBC confuses Democrats for progressives,â he emailed HuffPost Hill. âSupporting a perspective makes perfect sense and is exactly what talk show hosts are supposed to do.
HUFFPOST HILL -- Obama, Boehner, Bad, Weak Ryan Grim 2011
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While Los Angeles's Gustavo Dudamel and Philadelphia's Yannick Nézet-Séguin have been getting the lion's share of the headlines, the Young Turk to watch for my money is Nelsons.
Lucerne's Parade of Orchestras Dazzles and Delights Barnaby Krauss 2011
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
Memorial Day 2010
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
Literary Podcasts 2010
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
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There was a whole group of us Young Turk poets who hung out at the Savoy Tivoli inNorthBeach.
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Robin Black's marvelous short story collection, which has been needlessly ignored by The New York Times and The Washington Post, is very much on the level: far better than anything written by that lumbering Young Turk.
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"Large-scale genocidal acts were committed starting with Sultan Abdul Hamid's massacre of 300,000 Armenians from 1894 to 1896; the subsequent killings of 30,000 Armenians in Adana by the Young Turk regime in 1909; culminating in the Genocide of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 to 1923; and followed by forced Turkification and deportation of tens of thousands of Armenians by the Republic of Turkey."
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