Example sentences for: ankara

How can you use “ankara” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With Hillary and Chelsea Clinton already in Istanbul, and Bill Clinton due there from Ankara later this week for a summit of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Guardian of London fronted Monday the claim that the disastrous earthquakes in northwestern Turkey were "a prelude to a cataclysmic strike in Istanbul."

  • Turkey's president, vacationing in Istanbul, could not call to Ankara for four hours after the quake.

  • Yet, when Aziz arrived in Ankara, President Suleyman Demirel bluntly refused to meet him, and he found himself boycotted by Turkey's political parties.

  • A NYT front-pager mentions that two years ago the EU angered the United States and embarrassed Ankara by voting not to extend an offer of accession to Turkey.

  • He was enormously popular with the common Turkish people, and when he died in 1938 thousands of mourners lined the railway track to salute the white presidential train as it carried him from Istanbul for burial in Ankara, the new capital.


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