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young Turk

From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, a member of a movement that campaigned for reform of the Ottoman Empire.

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  • Calque of French Jeune-Turc, from which also Turkish Jön Türk has been borrowed.
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young TurkA young person who agitates for political or other reform; a young person with a rebellious disposition.
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