young Turk

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Recent Examples of young Turk And then some young Turk comes along who's not in a routine and can knock you right off your perch. Robert B. Tucker, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024 The Armenian genocide did not occur at a time when the Ottoman Empire fully ruled the region, but during a period when Young Turk nationalists were in the process of superseding the empire. Robert D. Kaplan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
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Noun
  • Reparations will support education, economic aid and mental health services, with programs specifically targeting women and girls who endured systematic persecution by extremists in Timbuktu.
    Molly Quell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Conservative activists said the group was intentionally − and unfairly − labeling mainstream political and religious organizations as extremist, raising concerns about political bias.
    Josh Meyer, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Researchers from Japan have developed biocompatible molecular quantum nanosensors (MoQNs) that can measure temperature and detect chemical radicals inside living cells with unprecedented precision.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The anti-imperialist upsurge of the 1920s and ’30s was formative for a generation of Latin American radicals.
    Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Its leaders have been working to rebuild relations with Arab and Western countries that had shunned Syria under former President Bashar Assad, who was ousted in December 2024 by rebels, who then installed a new government.
    Abby Sewell, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
  • As the years tick by, the lips become a bit of a rebel.
    Micaela English, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The collection drew inspiration from two seemingly distant sources: a still-life painting of a shirt collar by Joe Brainard, the prolific 1960s New York writer and artist, and a short story by Yu Dafu, the early 20th-century Chinese author and revolutionist.
    Denni Hu, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In a country shackled and scarred by race, religion, gender, and class, much of that rationalized and reified by mainline American churches, the Disciples were genial revolutionists offering inclusion, education, and empowerment for those at the margins.
    Richard D. Mahoney, JSTOR Daily, 30 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The second includes former revolutionaries, reformists, communist factions and groups such as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), many of whom emerged from or once supported the revolutionary system before later opposing it.
    Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In 1777, he was summoned to Paris to meet with American revolutionaries, including Benjamin Franklin.
    Amanda Rosa Updated April 28, Miami Herald, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The following day at Haymarket Square in Chicago, an unknown agitator threw a bomb at police, killing one officer instantly and leading to a violent battle that killed several more law enforcement officers and protesters.
    Preston Mizell, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Birdbaths that have small fountains or agitators also keep the water rippling.
    Joan Morris, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Jeremy Corbyn, the septuagenarian British leftist, who had already arrived in Havana by plane, met with high-ranking Communist Party officials in the presidential palace.
    Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Melton’s Austin starts as a baby leftist crying over a dead bee, then becomes torn between the authentic Korean cultural education Chairwoman Park claims to offer him and the increasingly ambitious Ashley, who wants to leverage Austin’s heritage for her own personal gain.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Kidal's capture in a similar militant-insurgent alliance over a decade ago was at the root of the security crisis that has shaken Mali.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • Mali has faced years of escalating insurgent violence; the ruling military junta, which pledged to restore stability in a 2020 coup, turned to Russia for assistance in its counterinsurgency campaign.
    Lauren Morganbesser, semafor.com, 26 Apr. 2026

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“Young Turk.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/young%20Turk. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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