Sentence examples for turks around from inspiring English sources

In apocalyptic terms, Sarrazin, a Social Democrat, conjured a future where Turks (around 5% of the population) compete to outnumber Germans, thereby "dumbing down" the country with their inferior gene pool.

Turkey considers itself the guardian of ethnic Turks around the world, including the 7.2 million Uighurs who live in western China.

The Pope has close ties to the Armenian community from his days in Argentina, and defended his pronouncement by citing the estimate made by historians that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century.

The Greek film Politiki Kouzina, which translates as "Constantinople cooking", briefly united Greeks and Turks around a box of Kleenex and launched a string of soap operas in both countries in which a Greek girl/boy falls in love with a Turkish boy/girl with predictably complicated consequences.

Khánh and the Young Turks began preparations to expel Taylor before changing their minds; however, Khánh's misleading tactics had rallied the Young Turks around his fragile leadership for at least the short-term future.

The Turks whisk around like brightly coloured pepper pots; the nuns and friars are sanctimonious and sometimes sinister in black; the Jewish merchants are fusty in Gunpowder Plot clothes.

A number of Turks wheel around to see who could be saying this.

The urban, modern Turks either go around doing the same things they always did, talking about children's schools, gluten-free diets and shopping malls.

Ethnic Turks account for around 10% of Bulgaria's population, more than a century after it ceased to be part of the Ottoman Empire.

It's ridiculous and unthinkable, right (especially so, since Air America and The Young Turks weren't around yet at the time of that election; but you get my point -- there's no way they would consider that legitimate, but yet they considered Fox's call perfectly legitimate)?

The case, which has riveted Turks, revolves around a suspected conspiracy by secular ultranationalists who are accused of developing several plots to attack civilian targets, like a mosque in central Istanbul, and to provoke a crisis with neighboring Greece, with a goal of paving the way for a coup.