Turkocentric
Turkocentric adjective: centered or focusing on Turkey.
Adjective
Turkocentric (comparative more Turkocentric, superlative most Turkocentric)
- Centered or focusing on Turkey.
- A clear demonstration of the Turks' belief in a Turcocentric universe was given in April 1953, when a Swedish cargo-vessel, the Naboland, collided with the Turkish submarine Dumlupınar, in the Dardanelles.1955, Geoffrey Lewis, Turkey, London: Ernest Benn Limited, page 189
- Some Turks are less than comfortable with their land's pre-Islamic history. They worry that if they celebrate their Arabian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian and Georgian pasts, Turkey will seem less theirs. Taught from childhood that they are descended from Turkic tribes that followed the legendary gray...2001, Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 107
Forms of Turkocentric
| comparative | more Turkocentric |
|---|---|
| superlative | most Turkocentric |
| alternative form | Turcocentric |
Origin of Turkocentric
From Turko- + -centric.
Words formed from Turkocentric
- Turkocentricity
Questions about Turkocentric
- What does Turkocentric mean?
- Turkocentric means centered or focusing on Turkey.
- What part of speech is Turkocentric?
- Turkocentric is an adjective.
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