Eskişehir

Or Es·ki·she·hir

[es-kee-she-heer]

noun

1. a city in W Turkey in Asia.

Eskişehir

/ ɛsˈkiʃɛˌhir /

noun

1. an industrial city in NW Turkey: founded around hot springs in Byzantine times. Pop: 519 000 (2005 est)

Example Sentences

The bus, which was making an overnight journey from the capital, Ankara, to the western city of Bursa, crashed into trees on a motorway in the region of Eskişehir, its governor Ozdemir Çakacak told the Dogan news agency.

From The Guardian

Hanefi Avcı, the police chief for Eskişehir Province, told me that he saw Gülenist police, prosecutors, and judges fabricate evidence in political investigations.

From The New Yorker