English > Republic of Turkey: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923. |
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| Synonym | Turkey |
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| Instance of | country, state, land | The territory occupied by a nation |
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| Member of | North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO | An international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security |
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| Members | Turk | A native or inhabitant of Turkey |
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| Part of | Asia Minor, Anatolia | A peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey |
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| Balkan Peninsula, Balkans | A large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range |
| Middle East, Mideast, Near East | The area around the eastern Mediterranean |
| Parts | Abydos | An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles |
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| Adana, Seyhan | A city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River |
| Aegospotami, Aegospotamos | A creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey |
| Ankara, Turkish capital, capital of Turkey, Angora | The capital of Turkey |
| Antalya, Adalia | A port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya |
| Antioch, Antakya, Antakiya | A town in southern Turkey |
| Ararat, Mount Ararat, Mt. Ararat | The mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded |
| Aras, Araxes | A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea |
| Bosporus | A strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea |
| Bursa, Brusa | A city in northwestern Turkey |
| Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont | The strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey |
| Edirne, Adrianople, Adrianopolis | A city in northwestern Turkey |
| Euphrates, Euphrates River | A river in southwestern Asia |
| Halicarnassus | An ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey |
| Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople | The largest city and former capital of Turkey |
| Izmir, Smyrna | A port city in western Turkey |
| Kurdistan | An extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus |
| Pergamum | An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey |
| Sardis | An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey |
| Seyhan, Seyhan River | A Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean |
| Tigris, Tigris River | An Asian river |
| Region of | Aga, Agha | title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey) |
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| Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign | The unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia |
| Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front, IBDA-C | A Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul |
| Jerusalem Warriors | ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah |
| Kurdistan Workers Party, Kurdistan Labor Pary, Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan, PPK | A Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey |
| Revolutionary People's Liberation Party, Revolutionary People's Liberation Front | An extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States |
| Turkish Hizballah | An ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey |
| bulgur, bulghur, bulgur wheat | parched crushed wheat |
| Spanish | República de Turquía, Turkey, Turquia, Turquía |
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| Catalan | República de Turquia, Turquia |
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