Turkish
adjective
Turkishness
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a word derived from
Turkish.
Example Sentences
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Shafak is also a political activist who was tried and acquitted in 2006 for "insulting Turkishness" in one of her books, and was put under investigation by Turkish authorities again earlier this year.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2019
Gül, rushing to prove a genealogy of Turkishness “for centuries,” sued for defamation—and won.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
The other lawyer freed was Kemal Kerincsiz, an ultra-nationalist best known for his efforts to bring charges against Nobel laureate novelist Orhan Pamuk and other writers for insulting "Turkishness".
From Reuters ● Mar. 10, 2014
Yet none of those groups seems to have affected "Turkishness" at the core or coloured the city's sense of itself.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 27, 2011
We had a hurried glimpse of queer-shaped, many-coloured houses, trousered women, and a general Turkishness.
From The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia by Cora Gordon
