TURKEY

Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Turkey, is a contiguous transcontinental country, located mostly on Anatolia in Western Asia and on East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea is to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles demarcate the boundary between Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia. Turkey's location ...

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turkey

Noun

  1. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
  2. The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).
  3. A failure.
    That film was a turkey.
  4. A foolish or inept person.
    The turkey cut in front of me and then berated me for running into him.
  5. An act of throwing three strikes in a row.


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