Sentence examples for turkish assault from inspiring English sources

The city prospered as a regional trading centre despite an earthquake in 1790, a plague in 1795, and a Turkish assault in 1802 during which it was burned.

This tactic worked well, and they broke up the Turkish assault, causing the attackers some casualties.

The Turkish assault began in the early hours of 19 May, mostly directed at the centre of the ANZAC position.

Trump's move, which led to the resignation of U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, has raised fears over clearing the way for a Turkish assault on the Kurdish fighters.

With only limited machine-guns and with bad light hindering the supporting artillery, the job of turning back the Turkish assault fell to the riflemen and by maintaining strict fire discipline, great effect was achieved.

US Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson travels to Turkey this week as US and Russian troops create separate buffers in Syria to prevent a Turkish assault on the northern town of Manbij.

The town suffered periodic damage from Turkish assaults and from earthquakes.

As the clock ticked throughout 90 minutes of regulation play against a determined and attacking Turkish team, the number of miraculous Senegalese saves and last-second fizzles of Turkish assaults were beginning to make some spectators believers.

There, they provided gunfire support to the Italian garrison against repeated Turkish assaults.

This does not mean that Isis is right, but a Turkish government assault on the PKK, whose Syrian branch, the PYD, is Isis's most effective military opponent, might be in the interests of the self-declared caliphate.

But it came as the US was accused by Kurds of tolerating a renewed Turkish government assault on its Kurdish minority as the price for permission for US aircraft to use Turkey's Incirlik air base against Isis jihadists for the first time.