young Turks

Definition of young Turksnext
plural of young Turk

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Noun
  • But a tragedy that falls on this woman and all of the radicals who teach people that immigration is the one type of law that rioters are allowed to interfere with.
    Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 9 Jan. 2026
  • In the wake of an ICE shooting that killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, academics have joined the chorus of left-wing radicals seeking to abolish the federal law enforcement agency.
    Peter D'Abrosca, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The move threatens to destabilize a relatively stable region and make Somaliland a target for extremists, while promising trade and investment.
    Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Some nihilistic violent extremists carry out violence with the goal of hastening the collapse of society — a philosophy known as accelerationism.
    Lauren Fichten, CBS News, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • By providing only air cover for the rebels, our intervention left the situation on the ground to the local competing forces, tribes and militias, which were divided then and remain divided to this day.
    Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • He's accused of running a network that partnered with violent groups including Mexico’s Sinaloa and Zetas cartels, Colombian FARC rebels and Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang.
    Kathryn Palmer, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • In the eighties, Petro was a member of the M-19, urban insurgents who caught the world’s attention by taking the American Ambassador and more than a dozen other foreign diplomats hostage for two months.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Syria’s al-Assad went down after Israel gutted Lebanese Hezbollah, following which Turkish aided and directed insurgents representing a minority of the country marched into Damascus.
    Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 4 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Parts of the movie were adapted from the novel Vineland, and some of the radical groups and revolutionaries were loosely inspired by real-life movements from the 1960s and 1970s.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 21 Dec. 2025
  • Sometimes revolutionaries come on the scene, guiding how mathematicians think about a particular field for generations.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 18 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • This has unfolded in a year that saw widespread anti-Israel campus demonstrations that prompted clashes between police and pro-Palestinian agitators as well as congressional hearings.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • Republican leadership and voters followed suit, and fake video clips proliferated whenever agitators saw an opportunity to sow division.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2025
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“Young Turks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turks. Accessed 16 Jan. 2026.

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