For The Virgin of Stamboul, he hired actors to pose as a clandestine Turkish rescue party that was hunting for a royal bride that had eloped with an American soldier.

The troops were hunting for water, the staffs were hunting for their troops, and the Turkish snipers were hunting for their prey.

Of the three most distinctive buildings on the way up the Bosphorus to Beykoz, one is a classic Ottoman imperial hunting lodge Küçüksu Palace ; one is much older, the castle of Anadolu Hisarı was constructed by the Ottomans during the build up to the conquest in order to secure the Bosphorus for the Turkish armies ; and one is more recent, the prominent white tower on the hill above Kanlıca is Khedive Palace, built in 1907 as the holiday home of the Khedive of Egypt.

Other examples of " Cleopatra's Nose " types of history cited by Carr were the claim by Edward Gibbon that if the Turkish sultan Bayezid I did not suffer from gout, he would have conquered Central Europe, Winston Churchill's statement that if King Alexander had not died of a monkey bite, the Greco-Turkish War would have been avoided, and Leon Trotsky's remark that if he not contracted a cold while duck hunting, he would not have missed a crucial Politburo meeting in 1923.

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.

The party arrives in Cyprus to find that a storm has destroyed the Turkish fleet.

It said that the army is a party to " arguments " regarding secularism ; that Islamism ran counter to the secular nature of the Turkish Republic, and to the legacy of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

* Demokratik Toplum Partisi, a Turkish political party known in English as Democratic Society Party

They were ultimately betrayed by one of their party, the Corsican Boccheciampe, and by some peasants who believed them to be Turkish pirates.

During his service for the development and industrialization of the country as a director general at the age of 30, and a political party chairman and the youngest Turkish prime minister at the age of 40, his overall tenure was shorter than only İsmet İnönü's.

The party promised to end the ban on females wearing the hijab at government institutions ( most pertinent at universities and a very contentious issue in Turkish politics ), the opening of Qur ' an schools and its mandatory teaching and a number of other measures that would appeal to Muslims.

* Young Party ( Genç Parti ), Turkish political party

* Halkçı Parti, a former kemalist socialist Turkish party translated both as People's Party and as Populist Party.

* Social Democratic Populist Party, a former kemalist social democratic Turkish party.

* People's Voice Party (), a Turkish political party

* Gabo d ' Hirutho d ' Bethnahrin, a militant Assyrian party labeled by the Turkish Government as a terrorist group

On 28 December 1915, the French navy led by the cruiser Jeanne d ' Arc occupied on the island at the behest of a pro-French local party which feared Turkish reprisals.

With all their possessions gone, the party borrowed Turkish clothing.

The Young Turks ( ( plural ) or ( plural ), from ) were a secularist Turkish nationalist reform party in the early twentieth century, favoring reformation of the absolute monarchy of the Ottoman Empire.

* Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi ( Republican People's Party of Turkey ), a Turkish political party.

A Turkish raiding party, passing unobstructed through territories of Ottoman vassals, broke into Moravian Serbia in 1381.

The King of the Serbs and Bosnia was also expecting a bigger Ottoman offensive since his army, commanded by Vlatko Vuković, wiped out a large Turkish raiding party in the Battle of Bileća in 1388.

In order to counter the growing influence of Turkish communists, Mustafa Kemal set-up a parallel puppet communist party ().

In addition to that, TİP became the first Turkish political party that put the Kurdish Question into its agenda.

* Felicity Party ( Saadet Partisi ), a Turkish political party

The party refers to the Serbian province as " Kosova ", the Albanian and Ottoman Turkish name for Kosovo.

The Justice and Development Party (), abbreviated JDP in English and AK PARTİ or AKP in Turkish, is a centre-right conservative political party in Turkey.

Lewis could let his eye caress The Prince's divan, covered with a rose-pink and silver Turkish cloth, or admire the lovely tapis, interwoven with gold, that spread across the floor.

The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg includes not one war but two, and throws in a Turkish revolution along with some guerrilla fighting in the desert for good measure.

The belly boites, with their papier-mache palm trees or hand-painted Ionic columns, heretofore existed mainly on the patronage of Greek and Turkish families.

-- Turkish political leaders bowed today to military pressure and agreed to form an emergency national front government with Gen. Cemal Gursel as president.

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

Some national languages like Finnish, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian ( Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ) and Bulgarian have a very regular spelling system with a nearly one-to-one correspondence between letters and phonemes.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, Anatolia was defined by the Turkish government as being effectively co-terminous with Asian Turkey.

Despite the economic blockade of Turkey on Armenia, every day dozens of Turkish trucks laden with goods enter Armenia through Georgia.

* 1984 – The PKK in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh

This was because in 1448, while Skanderbeg was victoriously fighting off the Turkish invasions, three military columns, commanded by Demetrio Reres along with his sons Giorgio and Basilio, were dispatched to help Alfonso V defeat the barons of Naples who had rebelled against him.

In 1529-1530 he was also charged with reinforcing certain city fortifications in response to the Turkish threat.

The Catalan Company seized control of Athens, and with it Aegina, in 1317, and in 1425 the island came under Venetian control, when Alioto Caopena, at that time ruler of Aegina, placed himself with treaty under the Republic's protection in order to escape the danger of a Turkish raid.

He and his family were pensioned and one of them aided in the defence of Aegina against the Turks, in 1537, was captured with his family and died in a Turkish dungeon.

* 1915 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins — The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by Australian, British, French and New Zealand troops begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

This incident, coupled with Stalin's demands for the restitution of the Turkish provinces of Kars, Artvin and Ardahan to the Soviet Union ( which were lost by Turkey with the Russo – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, but were regained with the Treaty of Kars in 1921 ) was one of the main reasons why Turkey decided to give up its general principle of neutrality in foreign affairs.

He worked in collaboration with Turkish composer Ahmet Adnan Saygun mostly around Adana ( Özgentürk 2008 ; Sipos 2000 ).