CALIPHATE STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Caliphate State mean? 

• CALIPHATE STATE (noun)
  The noun CALIPHATE STATE has 1 sense:

1. a Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran

  Familiarity information: CALIPHATE STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALIPHATE STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Turkish terrorist group of fundamentalist Muslims with ties to al-Qaeda that operates in Germany; seeks the violent overthrow of the Turkish government and the establishment of an Islamic nation modeled on Iran

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Association of Islamic Groups and Communities; Caliphate State; Kaplan Group

Instance hypernyms:

foreign terrorist organization; FTO; terrorist group; terrorist organization (a political movement that uses terror as a weapon to achieve its goals)

Domain category:

act of terrorism; terrorism; terrorist act (the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear)

Domain region:

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)