Turkey

n. large domesticated bird, flesh of this bird used for food; failure, flop (Slang); stupid person (Slang)

n. Republic of Turkey, country in western Asia and southeastern Europe between the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea

This article is about the Republic of Turkey. For other uses of "Turkey", see Turkey (disambiguation). See also Turk (disambiguation). Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in southwest Asia and the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey borders eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest, Greece to the west, Georgia to the northeast, Armenia, Azerbaijan (the Nakhichevan exclave), and Iran to the east, Iraq and Syria to the southeast. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the west, and the Black Sea to the north. Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers to mark the border between Europe and Asia, thus making Turkey transcontinental.
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Noun
1. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1923
(synonym) Republic of Turkey
(hypernym) country, state, land
(member-holonym) North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO
(part-holonym) Middle East, Mideast, Near East
(member-meronym) Turk
(part-meronym) Edirne, Adrianople, Adrianopolis
(class) Dardanelles, Dardanelles campaign

Noun
1. large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food
(synonym) Meleagris gallopavo
(hypernym) domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
(hyponym) turkey cock, gobbler, tom, tom turkey
(member-holonym) Meleagris, genus Meleagris
2. a person who does something thoughtless or annoying; "some joker is blocking the driveway"
(synonym) joker
(hypernym) unpleasant person, disagreeable person
3. flesh of large domesticated fowl usually roasted
(hypernym) poultry
(part-meronym) breast, white meat
4. an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
(synonym) bomb, dud
(hypernym) flop, bust
5. wild turkey of Central America and northern South America
(synonym) ocellated turkey, Agriocharis ocellata
(hypernym) gallinaceous bird, gallinacean
(member-holonym) Agriocharis, genus Agriocharis

(n.)
Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America.
  

(n.)
An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia.
  

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Background Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopted wide-ranging social, legal, and political reforms. After a period of one-party rule, an experiment with multi-party politics led to the 1950 election victory of the opposition Democratic Party and the peaceful transfer of power. Since then, Turkish political parties have multiplied, but democracy has been fractured by periods of instability and intermittent military coups (1960, 1971, 1980), which in each case eventually resulted in a return of political power to civilians. In 1997, the military again helped engineer the ouster - popularly dubbed a "post-modern coup" - of the then Islamic-oriented government. Turkey intervened militarily on Cyprus in 1974 to prevent a Greek takeover of the island and has since acted as patron state to the "Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus," which only Turkey recognizes. A separatist insurgency begun in 1984 by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) - now known as the People's Congress of Kurdistan or Kongra-Gel (KGK) - has dominated the Turkish military's attention and claimed more than 30,000 lives, but after the capture of the group's leader in 1999, the insurgents largely withdrew from Turkey, mainly to northern Iraq. In 2004, KGK announced an end to its ceasefire and attacks attributed to the KGK increased. Turkey joined the UN in 1945 and in 1952 it became a member of NATO. In 1964, Turkey became an associate member of the European Community; over the past decade, it has undertaken many reforms to strengthen its democracy and economy, enabling it to begin accession membership talks with the European Union. Map of Turkey More about Turkey: People Geography Government Economy Communications Transportation Military Transnational Issues