Sentence examples for Turkish from high-quality English sources.

• The Turkish straits between the…

• SOME extraordinary things are happening in Turkish northern Cyprus.

• It is these US forces that were withdrawn ahead of the Turkish operation.

• Lounge on their low sofas and enjoy good espresso or authentic Turkish coffee, and treat yourself to some delicious sticky Turkish sweets.

• Not all German residents of Turkish origin are Turkish citizens and able to vote in Turkish elections.

• Last summer it began killing Turkish troops and police, supposedly in retaliation for Turkish collusion with Islamic State (IS).

• The Turkish Cypriot state made a unilateral declaration of independence in 1983 and adopted the name Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

• Despite the Turkish government’s authoritarian drift, the municipal elections also suggested some aspects of Turkish democracy remain intact.

Use Turkish in a sentence.

• Turkish language, Turkish Türkçe or Türkiye Türkçesi, the major member of the Turkic language family, which is a subfamily of the Altaic languages.

• But it was the latest in a series of violent attacks against the Turkish state, which has prompted sweeping retaliatory measures that have seriously undermined Turkish democracy.

• Since 1974, as many as 80,000 Turkish settlers may have arrived in the island—in addition to the 30,000 Turkish troops stationed there—to join the roughly 100,000 native Turkish-Cypriots.

• Modern Turkish is the descendant of Ottoman Turkish and its predecessor, so-called Old Anatolian Turkish, which was introduced into Anatolia by the Seljuq Turks in the late 11th century ad.

• In what Turkish officials described as the first direct cross-border confrontation with the Islamic State, Turkish jets scrambled as tanks and artillery of its Fifth Armored Brigade shelled militants across the border.

• Turkish officials suspect that Mr Assad’s regime has handed Syria’s north-eastern Kurdish areas to militias tied to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a guerrilla group that has been fighting Turkish forces for over 30 years.

• On Wednesday, insurgents were holding scores of Turkish citizens seized in Mosul over the last two days, including the Turkish consul general, other diplomats and at least three children, the Turkish government said.

• Separately, Turkish prosecutors launched an investigation into a Greek right-wing newspaper, Dimokratia, over a front-page headline last week that used an obscene expression in Turkish against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Turkish sentence examples

• He edited the first Salnâme (“Year Book”) of the Ottoman Empire (1847), and in 1876 he published Lehƈe-i Osmanî (“Language of the Ottomans”), a concise dictionary that emphasized pure Turkish and formed a basis for the works of other Turkish scholars.

• From the point of view of linguistic development, four periods of Turkish may be differentiated: Old (Anatolian and Ottoman) Turkish, 13th–16th century; Middle (Ottoman) Turkish, 17th–18th century; Newer (Ottoman) Turkish, 19th century; and Modern Turkish, 20th century.

• BAGHDAD — Turkey and the United States have agreed in general terms on a plan that envisions American warplanes, Syrian insurgents and Turkish forces working together to sweep Islamic State militants from a 60-mile-long strip of northern Syria along the Turkish border, American and Turkish officials say.

• On his return, Fraşeri began working on what are considered his greatest contributions, his lexicographical works Kamus-i Fransevi, a French-Turkish, Turkish-French dictionary; Kamus-i alam (“Universal Dictionary”), an encyclopaedic work in six volumes; and Kamus-i Türki (“Turkish Dictionary”), in two volumes.