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
  • Reparations will support education, economic aid and mental health services, with programs specifically targeting women and girls who endured systematic persecution by extremists in Timbuktu.
    Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Conservative activists said the group was intentionally − and unfairly − labeling mainstream political and religious organizations as extremist, raising concerns about political bias.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • To its members, Latin America’s leaders weren’t revolutionary peers but swarthy radicals.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • By using multiple pulses in a sequence, chemists can study additional properties of radicals that are difficult to see with continuous-wave EPR, says Sideris, who recently moved to Stanford University.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Mali was struck late last month by one of the biggest coordinated attacks on its army in Bamako and several other cities by jihadis and rebels who seized several towns and military bases.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
  • The rebels were fully aware of these other colonies and sought to include them.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 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
  • Several of the world’s leading revolutionaries had spent time in the country.
    Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • The second includes former revolutionaries, reformists, communist factions and groups such as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), many of whom emerged from or once supported the revolutionary system before later opposing it.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Anti-Israel agitators clashed with law enforcement outside a Manhattan synagogue on Tuesday night as pro-Israel demonstrators waved Israeli and American flags nearby.
    Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
  • Birdbaths that have small fountains or agitators also keep the water rippling.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 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
  • Kidal's capture in a similar militant-insurgent alliance over a decade ago was at the root of the security crisis that has shaken Mali.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Mali has faced years of escalating insurgent violence; the ruling military junta, which pledged to restore stability in a 2020 coup, turned to Russia for assistance in its counterinsurgency campaign.
    Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 26 Apr. 2026

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 11 May. 2026.

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