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Young Turk

any of a group of younger people seeking to take control of an organization, party, country, etc. from an entrenched, usually conservative, group of older people

Etymology: orig., member of early 20th-c. revolutionary group in Turkey

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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