Young Turk Definition

noun
Any of a group of younger people seeking to take control of an organization, party, country, etc. from an entrenched, usually conservative, group of older people.
Webster's New World
A member of a Turkish reformist and nationalist political party active in the early 1900s.
American Heritage
A young progressive or insurgent member of an institution, movement, or political party.
American Heritage
A young person who rebels against authority or societal expectations.
American Heritage
Alternative form of young Turk.
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Noun

Singular:
Young Turk
Plural:
young-turks

Young Turk Sentence Examples

  • He wrote with conspicuous success in almost every branch of literature - history, romance, ethics, poetry and the drama; and his influence on the Young Turk party of later days was profound.

  • He entered the Turkish army as a subaltern with - out money or influence but gained admission to the staff college at Constantinople, and from there went to Salonika, the head - quarters of the Young Turk movement.

  • Turkey in the summer of 1908 excited the hopes of the Egyptian Nationalists, and a deputation was sent to Constantinople to confer with the Young Turk committee.

  • Accordingly he entered into negotiation, after the outbreak of the Young Turk revolution in the summer of 1908, with Isvolski, arranging with him Sept.

  • After the Young Turk revolution he became grand vizier (1909), but the same year was sent as ambassador to London.

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