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Examples of Turkish in a Sentence
Adjective
He is from Ankara, the Turkish capital.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Where Syrian and Turkish traditions meet: Mahrouseh The final stop on this baklava crawl is to a shop called Mahrouseh, run by a Syrian refugee family from Aleppo, who had a sweets shop back home, and had to flee to Turkey when the Syrian civil war broke out.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 7 June 2025
Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
At least four passengers on a recent Turkish Airlines flight reportedly caught measles, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
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Adjective
At the end of April, my wife and I took a Silversea Aegean cruise from Athens to some storied outposts of Greek civilization, including Rhodes, Crete, Mykonos and Ephesus on the Turkish coast.
—Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Where Syrian and Turkish traditions meet: Mahrouseh The final stop on this baklava crawl is to a shop called Mahrouseh, run by a Syrian refugee family from Aleppo, who had a sweets shop back home, and had to flee to Turkey when the Syrian civil war broke out.
—Fatma Tanis, NPR, 7 June 2025
Noun
The new patient is among four people who flew on Turkish Airlines flight 201, which landed at Denver International Airport on May 13, who have since tested positive for measles.
—Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 5 June 2025
At least four passengers on a recent Turkish Airlines flight reportedly caught measles, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
—Michael Cappetta, Travel + Leisure, 4 June 2025
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“Turkish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Turkish. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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Turkish
1 of 2 adjective
Turk·ish
ˈtər-kish 
: of or relating to Turkey, the Turks, or Turkish
Turkish
2 of 2 noun
: the language of the Turks
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