Turkocentric

comparative more Turkocentric · superlative most Turkocentric · alternative Turcocentric

1. Centered or focusing on Turkey.

   A clear demonstration of the Turks' belief in a Turcocentric universe was given in April 1953, when a Swedish cargo-vessel, the Naboland, collided with the Turkish submarine Dumlupınar, in the Dardanelles.

   1955, Geoffrey Lewis, Turkey, London: Ernest Benn Limited, page 189

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   Some Turks are less than comfortable with their land's pre-Islamic history. They worry that if they celebrate their Arabian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian and Georgian pasts, Turkey will seem less theirs. Taught from childhood that they are descended from Turkic tribes that followed the legendary gray wolf out of Central Asia in the tenth century, many of them have an insular Turkocentric view of the world, reinforced by the government's having changed hundreds of place-names to make them sound more Turkish.

   2001, Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 107