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
  • There are also alternative – some argue extremist – sites that limit content moderation, including 4chan, BitChute, Gab, GETTR, Parler, Rumble and Truth Social.
    Nathalie Japkowicz, The Conversation, 18 May 2026
  • While those behind the recent maritime raids have yet to be identified, previous ship captures have often involved young Somalis from impoverished communities and armed extremists affiliated with global terror networks.
    Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Schlöndorff sympathized with the anger driving the student movements of the time and pushed back against those condemning the radicals, including German left-wing terrorist group the Red Army Faction, who were using violence to achieve political ends.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
  • To its members, Latin America’s leaders weren’t revolutionary peers but swarthy radicals.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
Noun
  • In March, Washington sanctioned Rwanda’s defense forces and several senior officials, accusing them of funding the M23 rebels who have taken over mineral-rich areas of eastern DR Congo.
    Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 15 May 2026
  • Chance understands why some kids rebel.
    Andrew R. Chow, Time, 14 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
  • This revolutionary fervor culminated in both Fidel and Raúl, with roughly 140 rebel revolutionaries in tow, storming Cuba’s second-largest military installation, the Moncada Barracks, in July 1953.
    Drew Pittock, USA Today, 20 May 2026
  • In the second half of the 20th century, everyone who was anyone in American culture – from Hollywood icons to presidents and revolutionaries – had their portrait taken by Avedon.
    Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • But the night’s main draw was the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, the far-right agitator who hopes to wrest a Senate seat away from the incumbent, John Cornyn.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
  • Instead of removing the anti-free speech agitators, UNLV police escorted Peer off campus.
    Editorial, Boston Herald, 9 May 2026
Noun
  • The last pope, Francis, could be filed away by American conservatives as an anti-American Latin American leftist, but Leo can’t.
    Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 2 May 2026
  • Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But even larger numbers of socially conservative white working-class voters in Wales, Scotland and northern England — the traditional bedrock of Labour’s support — switched to Reform, the insurgent party founded by Nigel Farage, the renowned Brexit campaigner.
    Ian King, CNBC, 13 May 2026
  • According to the military, security forces launched an operation in the province’s district of Barkhan to rout out insurgents that Islamabad claims are backed by India.
    ABC News, ABC News, 13 May 2026

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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