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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.
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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.
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Robert D. Kaplan,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Aug. 2023
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.
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Robert D. Kaplan,
Foreign Affairs,
8 Aug. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for young Turk
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Opportunists like the daycare group, which was selling weapons, and extremists — not the hobbyists.
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Many of these decisions were made so Netanyahu could retain the support of the far-right extremists keeping him in power and avoid a possible jail sentence on corruption charges.
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Where are the voices of all the mainstream Democrats in response to the takeover by the radicals in the Democratic Party today?
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The one in which his tiny team of negotiators surrendered to the radicals ruling that luckless nation.
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Mahamat Idriss Déby, 42, seized power in Chad after his father, Idriss Déby, was killed fighting rebels in 2021, before winning elections in 2024.
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The group has been responsible for current President Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s security and for fighting rebel groups.
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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.
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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.
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Some imagery on the shirt, depicting Haitian revolutionaries from the early 1800s, was declared political and therefore not allowed, having fallen foul of FIFA’s often quite stringent rules around kits at World Cups.
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The garments, designed by Stella Jean, a Haitian Italian fashion designer, featured a painting of the Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture, Dessalines’ fellow revolutionary.
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The majority of speakers at Tuesday’s board meeting urged the board not to allow online agitators to dictate personnel decisions.
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In recent years, agitators have fueled anti-immigration street violence following crimes committed by, or falsely reported to have been committed by, immigrants.
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Raman is more likely than Bass to pick up the voters who chose community organizer Rae Huang, a leftist who, like Raman, is a DSA member.
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In New York, an inspiring young leftist competed against a boorish, but experienced, former governor to replace a corrupt mayor.
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But what local powers must be surrendered to the insurgent American collectivity?
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The province has been the center of a long-running separatist insurgency, with insurgents demanding independence or greater control over local resources.
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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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