Example sentences for: turks

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

  • Finally, in 1898, the European powers forced the Turks to grant Crete autonomy within the Ottoman Empire and accept Prince George, second son of the Greek king, as governor.

  • The first major rebellion occurred in 1770 when the Russians, hoping to distract the Turks while they waged their own attacks on the Ottoman Empire elsewhere, promised support to Dhaskaloyiánnis, a wealthy shipowner.

  • The prize exhibit is the full-size copy of the Royal Galley, La Reial, aboard which Don Juan of Austria commanded the fleet that defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571.

  • The Kurds were willing and extraordinarily cruel tools of the Turks: another example of how nobody cares what happens to a group once it is defined as the "other."

  • The Ottoman Turks pushed Venetian and other forces from Asia Minor, through the islands of the Aegean, until they had left the Greek mainland.


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