1. a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923; [syn: Turkey, Republic of Turkey]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Republic of Turkey
n 1: a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the
collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks,
led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 [syn:
Turkey, Republic of Turkey]