Mersin

American  

[mer-seen] / mɛrˈsin /

noun

1. a seaport in S Turkey, on the NW coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

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Mersin British  

/ mɛəˈsiːn /

noun

1. Also called: Içel.  a port in S Turkey, on the Mediterranean: oil refinery. Pop: 603 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

Several times a month, tankers unload tens of thousands of barrels of oil products at a Turkish storage terminal in the port city of Mersin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Before the sanctions, the storage terminal in Mersin, a little-known business called Turkis Enerji, barely had any ship traffic.

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Asked about the 5.5 million barrels of fuel that, according to Kpler data, arrived from Russia at the company’s mooring in the bay of Mersin this year, Ayrik said he couldn’t discuss the company’s customers.

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Last month, a sanctioned vessel unloaded 36,000 barrels of diesel from Vadinar at another offshore platform in Mersin, according to Kpler.

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"There is a richness of DNA sequences in the chewed mastic from Huseby-Klev, and in it we find both the bacteria that we know are related to periodontitis, and DNA from plants and animals that they had chewed before," says Dr. Emrah Kırdök, from Mersin University Department of Biotechnology, who coordinated the metagenomic work on the Mesolithic chewing gum.

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