REPUBLIC OF TURKEY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of Turkey mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF TURKEY (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF TURKEY has 1 sense:

1. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF TURKEY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF TURKEY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Turkey; Turkey

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Turkey"):

Adrianople; Adrianopolis; Edirne (a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian)

Pergamum (an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here)

Izmir; Smyrna (a port city in western Turkey)

Brusa; Bursa (a city in northwestern Turkey)

Constantinople; Istanbul; Stamboul; Stambul (the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church)

Halicarnassus (an ancient Greek city on the southwestern coast of Asia Minor in what is now Turkey; site of the mausoleum at Halicarnassus)

Canakkale Bogazi; Dardanelles; Hellespont (the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey)

Antakiya; Antakya; Antioch (a town in southern Turkey; ancient commercial center and capital of Syria; an early center of Christianity)

Adalia; Antalya (a port city in southwestern Turkey on the Gulf of Antalya)

Angora; Ankara; capital of Turkey; Turkish capital (the capital of Turkey; located in west-central Turkey; it was formerly known as Angora and is the home of Angora goats)

Adana; Seyhan (a city in southern Turkey on the Seyhan River)

Abydos (an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles; scene of the legend of Hero and Leander)

Kurdistan (an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus)

Sardis (an ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; as the capital of Lydia it was the cultural center of Asia Minor; destroyed by Tamerlane in 1402)

Aegospotami; Aegospotamos (a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War)

Ararat; Mount Ararat; Mt. Ararat (the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded)

Aras; Araxes (a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes)

Bosporus (a strait connecting the Mediterranean and the Black Sea; separates the European and Asian parts of Turkey; an important shipping route)

Euphrates; Euphrates River (a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia)

Seyhan; Seyhan River (a Turkish river flowing south southwest into the Mediterranean)

Tigris; Tigris River (an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River)

Meronyms (members of "Republic of Turkey"):

Turk (a native or inhabitant of Turkey)

Domain member region:

Turkish Hizballah (an ethnic Kurdish group of Sunni extremists formed in the late 1980s in southeastern Turkey; seeks to replace Turkey's secular regime with an Islamic state and strict shariah law; responsible for bombings and the torture and murder of Turkish and Kurdish journalists and businessmen; receives support from Iran)

Revolutionary People's Liberation Front; Revolutionary People's Liberation Party (an extreme Marxist terrorist organization in Turkey that is opposed to NATO and the United States; attacks Turkish security and military officials)

Kurdistan Labor Pary; Kurdistan Workers Party; Partiya Karkeran Kurdistan; PPK (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist group of Kurds trying to establish an independent Kurdish state in eastern Turkey)

Jerusalem Warriors (ethnic Turkish Sunni terrorists who are linked with the Turkish Hizballah; killed a United States Air Force sergeant in 1991)

IBDA-C; Islamic Great Eastern Raiders-Front (a Turkish terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for bombing a British consulate and bank in Istanbul; a violent opponent of Turkey's secular government and its ties to the European Union and NATO)

bulghur; bulgur; bulgur wheat (parched crushed wheat)

Aga; Agha (title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey))

Dardanelles; Dardanelles campaign (the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks)

Holonyms ("Republic of Turkey" is a part of...):

Anatolia; Asia Minor (a peninsula in southwestern Asia that forms the Asian part of Turkey)

Balkan Peninsula; Balkans (a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range)

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

Holonyms ("Republic of Turkey" is a member of...):

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)