(n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
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Turk
Definition:
(n.) A member of any of numerous Tartar tribes of Central Asia, etc.; esp., one of the dominant race in Turkey.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Turkey.
(n.) A Mohammedan; esp., one living in Turkey.
(n.) The plum weevil. See Curculio, and Plum weevil, under Plum.
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(1) Çavuşoğlu had had a request turned down on Friday to address a campaign rally in support of plans by the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , to extend his powers, which Turks will vote on in a referendum next month.
(2) The Americans and British supported the Turks, who abandoned their neutrality and joined Nato, having fought in the Korean war.
(3) If we say something, the world accuses us of interfering with the press, so we’re not in a comfortable position now, but after 1 November we will settle up with all of them.” Beset by terror and crisis at home and war abroad, Turks prepare for a fateful choice Read more Rights groups questioned the move against opposition media outlets so close to an election.
(4) In a hotly disputed libel suit, the Conservative party deputy chairman is accused of providing loans of more than $5m to the disgraced former premier of the Turks and Caicos, Michael Misick, through the local bank Ashcroft controls.
(5) A conservative, lower-middle-class district bordering the Golden Horn and predominantly inhabited by Turks from the Black Sea coast, Kasimpasa loves Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the powerful prime minister increasingly reviled across Turkey and tarnished internationally.
(6) The fortress-like villages perched on rocky mountaintops we saw when we visited the north of the country are reminders that Yemen has constantly been invaded, or otherwise meddled with, by outsiders, from the Turks onwards.
(7) Hb Bart's was detected in Turks (2.9%), Cypriots (2.8%), Egyptians (2.0%), Lebanese (0.8%), Greeks (0.7%), Italians (0.5%), and Yugoslavs (0.2%).
(8) Frequencies of various hemoglobinopathies were examined in a total of 1,922 individuals of Eti-Turk origin by electrophoretical techniques.
(9) A 30-year-old Turk was admitted with signs of exudative enteropathy together with malabsorption.
(10) On a modest street in a rundown area, Aziz Kara, a 64-year-old Turk, became embroiled in a ferocious argument with his neighbours.
(11) "Turks and Kurds fought together in Çanakkale [during the first world war], and launched the Turkish parliament together in 1920," he said.
(12) In 2007, ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, who received death threats because of his comments about the killings of Armenians by Turks in 1915, was shot dead outside his office in Istanbul.
(13) A case of Kaposi sarcoma is reported in a 40-year-old Turk 3 months after a kidney transplantation under immunosuppression with cyclosporin A and methylprednisolone.
(14) On a day that should have been one of the happiest in the Muslim calendar, the festival of Eid al-Adha, hundreds of Turks and refugee Kurds spent the morning at the border with Syria, watching helplessly as shells rained down on a city many once called home.
(15) Three of the six ships flew the Turkish flag, the convoy was organised by a Turkish charity, and several hundred of those on board the ships were Turks.
(16) The paper alleges: "It was well-known that corruption among politicians in the Turks and Caicos Islands was endemic and it was inherently unlikely that Mr Misick could have achieved such apparent wealth and pursued such an ostentatious lifestyle while being premier, without having being corrupt.
(17) Police arrested 47 people following an attack by mainland Turks on motorcyclists carrying "vote yes" banners, the interior minister in the Turkish-Cypriot state, Ozkan Murat, said.
(18) It was a disappointing moment for Turks to learn that the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has narrowly voted to approve a resolution describing the massacre of more than a million Armenians by the Ottoman Empire during the first world war as genocide.
(19) Cyprus has long blocked Turkey’s membership talks over the presence of Turkish troops in the breakaway Turkish-speaking north of the island, while a host of bureaucratic hurdles have to be cleared to make visa liberalisation, relaxing requirements placed on Turks, a reality.
(20) Of the 10 jurisdictions flagged on the scorecard for their low tax rate, eight are British overseas territories or crown dependencies: Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey and the Turks and Caicos Islands.