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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.
Turkish women's literature
Turkish women's literature is writing in Turkish by women, spanning Ottoman divan poets, the first female novelists such as Fatma Aliye (1862–1936), and writers like Halide Edib to the present.
Turkish–Azeri blockade of Armenia
The Turkish–Azeri blockade of Armenia is the closure of Armenia's borders with Turkey and Azerbaijan since the early 1990s, leaving Georgia and Iran as its main land routes.
Turkish–Syrian National Army offensive in Northern Syria (2024–2025)
Turkish-backed Syrian National Army offensive (Operation Dawn of Freedom, November 2024–2025) against the Kurdish-led SDF in northern Syria: seizure of Tal Rifaat and Manbij, fighting at Tishreen Dam, 100,000 displaced, ending with the March 2025 SDF integration agreement.
Turkish–Venetian wars
Turkish–Venetian wars: recurring conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, 1463–1718, over Cyprus, Crete, and Adriatic strongholds, ending with the Peace of Passarowitz.
Turkistan
Turkistan (Түркістан), also Turkestan, is an ancient city in southern Kazakhstan, formerly Yasi; regional capital since 2018 and site of the UNESCO-listed Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1389–1405), spiritual capital of the Turkic world.
Turkistan Islamic Party
Turkistan Islamic Party (TIP), also called East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) or East Turkistan Islamic Party, is a Uyghur Islamist militant group active in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Syria, UN-listed as QDe.088, with contested existence and a 2020 US delisting.
Turkistan Oblast
Turkistan Oblast (Түркістан облысы), southern Kazakhstan region created June 19, 2018 by renaming South Kazakhstan Oblast; capital Turkestan, population 2.14 million (2026), agrarian and tourism economy.
Turkiye milli olimpiyat komitesi
Türkiye Millî Olimpiyat Komitesi (TMOK), the Turkish National Olympic Committee, founded 1908 by Selim Sırrı Tarcan as the Ottoman National Olympic Society; IOC-recognized 1911, renamed 1923, Olympic Cup 1972, Istanbul-based volunteer organization.
Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği
Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği (TYB, Writers Union of Turkey) is a Turkish writers' association founded in Ankara in 1978, known for its annual Writer, Thinker and Artists of the Year awards.
Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası
Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası (TYS), the Writers' Union of Turkey, is a Turkish trade union of writers founded in Istanbul in 1974, with Yaşar Kemal as its first president.
Turkiyya
Turkiyya, or Turco-Egyptian rule (الحكم التركي المصري), was the colonial administration of Sudan from 1821 to 1885, founded by Muhammad Ali and ended when Mahdist forces took Khartoum.
Turkmen Air Force
Turkmen Air Force, air branch of Turkmenistan's armed forces, formed 1992 from ~300 Soviet aircraft; flies MiG-29, Su-25, A-29, M-346, and drones under a defensive doctrine; little public data.
Turkmen carpet
A Turkmen carpet is a hand-knotted pile carpet woven by the Turkmen tribes of Central Asia, with rows of tribal guls on a red field, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.
Turkmen language
Turkmen (Türkmen dili, Türkmençe) is an Oghuz Turkic language, the national language of Turkmenistan, with about 6.7 million speakers; agglutinative, SOV, vowel harmony, Latin alphabet since 1993.
Turkmen literature
Turkmen literature (Türkmen edebiýaty) is the oral and written literature in the Turkmen language, rooted in folk epics and classical poetry led by the 18th-century poet Magtymguly Pyragy.
Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
The Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic (Turkmen SSR) was a union republic of the Soviet Union in Central Asia with its capital at Ashgabat, created in 1924 and dissolved on Turkmenistan's independence in 1991.
Turkmenabat
Turkmenabat (Türkmenabat; formerly Chardzhou, Chärjew, ancient Amul) is a city of about 231,000 on the Amu Darya in eastern Turkmenistan, capital of Lebap velayat, a Silk Road crossing, rail hub, and chemical industry center.
Turkmenenergo
Turkmenenergo, officially the State Power Corporation, is the state-owned electric utility of Turkmenistan under the Ministry of Energy, operating the unified ring power grid and counterparty for electricity exports.