(n.) An honorary title given to officers of high rank in Turkey, as to governers of provinces, military commanders, etc. The earlier form was bashaw.
Example Sentences:
(1) A few nights before the evacuation, I drank hot chocolate topped with cream with a Libyan photographer friend at a city-centre cafe nicknamed The Clock after a nearby handsome clock tower, presented to the city long ago by an Ottoman pasha.
(2) The ISI was angered when its chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a New York lawsuit related to the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(3) Every third shop on Fevzi Pasha Boulevard, a wide shopping street that led to the smugglers’ quarter, was happy to oblige.
(4) In his affidavit, Pasha said that he had "seen enough corroborative material" to "prove" the allegations against the Washington ambassador, who was forced to resign over the issue.
(5) In recent months Pakistan's army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, have drawn closer to Karzai, their former rival, with a view to negotiating a peace deal with the Taliban.
(6) 7.41pm GMT Scores: 7,7,8,8 - a much-better-than-usual 30 from Rachel and Pasha.
(7) The CIA deputy director Michael Morell negotiated access to the Abbottabad during meetings in Islambad with the ISI chief, General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the Washington Post reported.
(8) The El Materi household includes a large tiger, named Pasha, living in a cage, which consumes four chickens a day.
(9) Last December the CIA station chief was forced to quit Pakistan after being publicly identified (US officials blamed an ISI leak); while Pakistani spies were angered that their chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a US lawsuit brought in a New York court by victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
(10) The head of the military's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, had told the court in writing that he met Ijaz and had "seen enough corroborative material to prove his version of the incident".
(11) In their court written testimonies, Kayani and Pasha had pressed the judges to investigate the allegations against the former US envoy, Husain Haqqani, while the government had asked the court to drop the case and leave it to an investigation by a parliamentary committee.
(12) Last week the CIA chief, Leon Panetta, visited Islamabad to meet the Pakistani army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, and the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), General Shuja Pasha.
(13) I'm concerned about how close Pasha will be able to get.
(14) Kayani and the head of the military's spy agency, Lieutenant-General Ahmed Shuja Pasha, pressed the supreme court in affidavits to investigate the allegations against Haqqani that could lead to treason charges.
(15) Which means Rachel and Pasha are in the bottom two.
(16) In parliament, angry politicians fired questions at top generals; one even complained to the ISI chief, General Shuja Pasha, that he had been tortured by intelligence men under the regime of President Pervez Musharraf.
(17) And the ISI chief Pasha is hiring lawyers in New York to defend him against similar accusations in a lawsuit.
(18) Ijaz was a ferocious critic of Pakistan's military but then he met its spymaster, Pasha, in October in London where he handed over his evidence about the memo to him.
(19) Chelsee is paired with new boy Pasha - he sweeps her of her feet, then we're treated to a rather unfortunate camera angle as she bounces up the stairs.
(20) The evidence of General Pasha , the former chief of the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, is particularly interesting, with its account of Bin Laden's travels in Pakistan following the war on Afghanistan, and explanation of how one of his aides used his Pakistani identity card to buy a plot of land not far from the Pakistan military academy.
Turkish
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Turkey or the Turks.
(n.) The language spoken by Turks, esp. that of the people of Turkey.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was first allowed to leave Atatürk airport for a Turkish detention camp, before finally being sent to Australia in early June.
(2) At a certain time at night they do their business here,” one Turkish man says.
(3) There was no immediate comment from Turkish authorities about the incident, which occurred in the village of Atima, across the border from the Turkish village of Bukulmez in Hatay province.
(4) Kobani impressed on the Kurds that Erdoğan could not be trusted and that anti-Kurdish feeling continued to burn brightly in the Turkish state.
(5) The footballer, who plays for club side Gabala and the national team , had waved a Turkish flag during a Europa League match in Cyprus, and appeared to make an obscene gesture at a Greek journalist who asked why he had done so.
(6) I ask the Turkish guard to confirm that they will send a search-and-rescue team.
(7) Police named the second Ankara suicide bomber as Ömer Deniz Dündar, according to the Turkish media.
(8) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(9) Equivalent 50-item CID W-22 word lists were recorded in English by three (Turkish, East Indian, and American) talkers and presented to 27 normal-hearing listeners representing each of these language groups.
(10) We won’t put them in any kind of camp,” said a senior Turkish official.
(11) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(12) The group repeatedly struck at Turkish cities in 2016 in retaliation for Ankara’s support for international efforts to suppress its activities in Syria and Iraq.
(13) It is a Saturday afternoon in the southern Turkish town of Antakya, blisteringly hot.
(14) In the past year the Turkish military has been engaged in a ferocious conflict with the country’s Kurdish minority.
(15) Thousands of desperate Syrians remain stuck inside Syria on the Turkish and Iraqi borders amidst mounting insecurity and with winter fast approaching.
(16) In the nearby Turkish city of Antakya, an Isis memberwho operates from a base in the city, said that when the fighting between anti-Assad groups finally ends, a more competent opposition force will emerge.
(17) He also received $530,000 for consulting work that likely benefited the Turkish government while working as a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign.
(18) Two mutations observed in this study, IVS-I-116 (T----G) and Cd44(-C), have not been reported in the Turkish population to date.
(19) The helicopter strayed more than a mile into Turkish airspace, but crashed inside Syria after being hit by missiles fired from the jet, Turkish officials said at the time.
(20) Thirty-two Turkish lorry drivers who were seized in Mosul on 6 June were released a month later.