young Turk

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Recent Examples of young Turk And then some young Turk comes along who's not in a routine and can knock you right off your perch. Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 The Armenian genocide did not occur at a time when the Ottoman Empire fully ruled the region, but during a period when Young Turk nationalists were in the process of superseding the empire. Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
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Noun
  • But, increasingly convinced that Mossadegh was an extremist allied with communism, the Eisenhower administration began to plot his ouster.
    Andrew Arsan, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
    Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • The actor got his start on Family Ties, an '80s sitcom about the Keaton family, whose matriarch and patriarch were once 1960s radicals now attempting to raise their Reagan-era children in suburbia.
    Rebecca Aizin, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026
  • Increasingly, however, that tent seems to have room for radicals and ideological extremists while pushing out Democrats who think independently.
    Doug Friednash, Denver Post, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • Accompanying the violence, both the Naxals and the security forces – including local militia raised to combat the rebels – have been accused of horrific human rights abuses, including abductions, torture and rape.
    Dhruv Tikekar, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • The rebels have reported two cases.
    Jean-Yves Kamale, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • The collection drew inspiration from two seemingly distant sources: a still-life painting of a shirt collar by Joe Brainard, the prolific 1960s New York writer and artist, and a short story by Yu Dafu, the early 20th-century Chinese author and revolutionist.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Kings, poets, scientists and revolutionaries wanted to meet him and sought his advice.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 June 2026
  • Al Pacino plays a CIA operative orchestrating a covert plan to eliminate the Cuban revolutionary.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • In January, a DHS official sent a memo to some federal immigration agents temporarily assigned to Minneapolis instructing them to collect personal information about protesters and agitators, including license plates, identifications and images, according to CNN reporting.
    Jude Joffe-Block, NPR, 10 June 2026
  • Cars pushed through the crowd, hitting at least one person as agitators continued banging, kicking and blocking government vehicles.
    Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
Noun
  • Trailing far behind are two other candidates — community organizer Rae Huang, a leftist who has criticized Raman as too moderate; and tech entrepreneur Adam Miller, a centrist Democrat who promised to bring his managerial skills to City Hall.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2026
  • In New York, an inspiring young leftist competed against a boorish, but experienced, former governor to replace a corrupt mayor.
    Marc Novicoff, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • The outbreak, reported in 14 of Borno state’s 27 local governments, is unfolding in communities with health systems made fragile by nearly two decades of violent extremism from the Boko Haram insurgent group.
    ABC News, ABC News, 9 June 2026
  • After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 8 June 2026

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.

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