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- French · calque ofJeune-Turc
- English todayyoung Turk
Calque of French Jeune-Turc, from which also Turkish Jön Türk has been borrowed.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
young Turk
Today it means: From the late-19th to the early-20th century, a member of a movement that campaigned for reform of the Ottoman Empire. Full definition →
French Jeune-Turc