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Turkish Kurdistan
Turkish Kurdistan (Bakurê Kurdistanê) is the Kurdish-inhabited southeast and east of Turkey, home to roughly 15 million Kurds (15-20% of the population), mainly Kurmanji and Zazaki speakers, shaped by the 1984-2025 PKK conflict and the post-2024 peace process.
Turkish Land Forces
Turkish Land Forces (Türk Kara Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı), the land branch of the Turkish Armed Forces; command established 1 July 1949 in Ankara, NATO member since 1952, lineage traced to Mete Han's 209 BC army, with operations in Korea, Bosnia, Kosovo, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.
Turkish language
Turkish (Türkçe) is the official language of Türkiye and Northern Cyprus and the largest Turkic language, with about 200 million speakers; it adopted a Latin alphabet in 1928.
Turkish language reform
Turkish language reform (dil devrimi): Türkiye's 1928 switch from Arabic script to a Latin-based alphabet (Law No. 1353) and the post-1932 Türk Dil Kurumu campaign replacing Arabic and Persian loanwords with Turkish coinages, aided by the Sun Language Theory.
Turkish lira
The Turkish lira, also known as the Turkish pound or Yeni Lira, is the currency of Türkiye, divided into 100 kuruş and issued by the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye.
Turkish locomotive classification
The Turkish locomotive classification is the numbering system used by TCDD. Steam locomotives use an axle-based code, while diesel and electric locomotives use a power-based code.
Turkish mafia
Turkish mafia: organized crime groups of Turkish origin in Turkey and the European diaspora, rooted in Laz migrant syndicates of early-20th-century Istanbul, historically dominant in the Balkan heroin route and now active in cocaine and methamphetamine trafficking.
Turkish makam
Turkish makam (makam, makamlar), the melodic-modal system of Ottoman-Turkish classical music: 53-tone Holdrian comma theory, seyir melodic progression, Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek codification, and core makams such as Rast, Hicaz, and Segâh.
Turkish National Movement
Turkish National Movement (Millî Mücadele): the Anatolian resistance organization founded after the 1918 Mudros armistice, led by Mustafa Kemal through the Amasya Circular, Erzurum and Sivas congresses, the National Pact, and the War of Independence, producing the Republic of Turkey in 1923.
Turkish Naval Forces
Turkish Naval Forces (Deniz Kuvvetleri Komutanlığı), the navy of Türkiye, NATO member since 1952. Strongest naval power in the eastern Mediterranean; sole major NATO navy in the Black Sea since February 2022 under Montreux; 31 warships under construction in 2025.
Turkish novel
The Turkish novel is the tradition of extended fictional prose in Turkish, which emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-nineteenth century and became a leading modern genre.
Turkish occupation of northern Syria
Turkish occupation of northern Syria: since August 2016, Türkiye and its Syrian National Army proxy have held territory seized in Operations Euphrates Shield, Olive Branch, and Peace Spring, ruling some 1.4 million people through over 100 military sites amid documented abuses.
Turkish passport
The Turkish passport, also called the Turkey passport, is the travel document issued to citizens of Türkiye in six types under the 1950 Passport Law No. 5682.
Turkish Petroleum
Turkish Petroleum, Türkiye Petrolleri Anonim Ortaklığı (TPAO), is Turkey's state-owned oil and gas exploration and production company, founded in 1954 and behind the Sakarya Black Sea gas discovery.
Turkish playwrights
Turkish playwrights are writers of staged drama in the Turkish language, a tradition beginning with İbrahim Şinasi's 1859 Şair Evlenmesi and continuing through republican playwrights who built a national repertoire.
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT, Türkiye Radyo Televizyon Kurumu) is Turkey's public broadcaster, founded 1 May 1964 under Law 359; first TV broadcast 1968; 18 TV and 17 radio channels in 41 languages; monopoly ended 1990.
Turkish satirical magazine tradition
The Turkish satirical magazine tradition, or mizah dergiciliği, is a continuous practice of humor magazine publishing in Turkey and the Ottoman Empire since 1870, combining cartoons and political satire.
Turkish science fiction
Turkish science fiction, known in Turkish as bilimkurgu, is the body of science fiction literature, film, and television produced in Turkish, expanding sharply after 2000.
Turkish short story
The Turkish short story, called hikâye or öykü, is a prose narrative genre in Turkish literature that became an independent genre in the early twentieth century.
Turkish State Railways
Turkish State Railways, officially Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları (TCDD), is Turkey's government-owned national railway company, headquartered in Ankara, managing infrastructure and operating trains through TCDD Taşımacılık.
Turkish State Theatres
Turkish State Theatres (Devlet Tiyatroları) is Turkey's national state theater institution, founded by law in 1949, now running 64 stages and drawing over 2 million spectators a year.
Turkish Statistical Institute
The Turkish Statistical Institute (Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu, TÜİK) is Turkey's scientifically autonomous national statistical agency, headquartered in Ankara, founded in 1926 and producing official statistics under Law No. 5429 of 2005.
Turkish straits crisis
Turkish straits crisis: 1945–1946 Soviet-Turkish confrontation over the Montreux Convention, Soviet bases on the Bosporus and Dardanelles, and Kars-Ardahan territory; Turkey refused, the US backed it, leading toward NATO membership in 1952.
Turkish television drama
Turkish television drama (dizi) is serialized Turkish TV fiction exported to over 150 countries since the late 1990s; the world's second- or third-ranked TV exporter with $1 billion in exports, driven by long episodes, family melodrama, and soft power.
Turkish think tanks
Turkish think tanks: policy research organizations including IKV (1965), TESEV (1994), EDAM, IPC, and the AK Party-aligned SETA (2005); 48 existed by 2019, focused mainly on foreign policy.
Turkish translations of the Quran
Turkish translations of the Quran are renderings of the Arabic text into Turkish, with at least 160 complete translations between 1914 and 2020, third after Persian and Urdu.
Turkish Van
Turkish Van (Van kedisi), the swimming cat: a natural semi-longhaired breed from Lake Van, eastern Turkey, white with colored head and tail, water-loving, maturing in 3-5 years, distinct from the Turkish Angora.
Turkish war crimes
Turkish war crimes: allegations and findings against Turkish forces and the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army in northern Syria since 2016 and southeast Turkey, documented by the UN, HRW, and Amnesty, and rejected by Ankara.
Turkish War of Independence
Turkish War of Independence (Kurtuluş Savaşı, İstiklal Harbi), 1919–1923: the Turkish national movement's war against Allied partition and the Greek invasion, ending at the Battle of Dumlupınar, the Treaty of Lausanne, and the Republic of Turkey.
Turkish women ambassadors
Turkish women ambassadors are women who reached ambassador rank in Turkey's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The first, Filiz Dinçmen, went to The Hague in 1982; by 2020, 65 of 260 ambassadors were women.