Ankara

[ ang-ker-uh, ahng- ]

noun

1. a city in and the capital of Turkey, in the central part.

Ankara

/ ˈæŋkərə /

noun

1. the capital of Turkey: an ancient city in the Anatolian highlands: first a capital in the 3rd century bc , in the Celtic kingdom of Galatia. Pop: 3 593 000 (2005 est) Ancient nameAncyra Former name (until 1930)Angora

Ankara

1. Capital of Turkey , located in west-central Turkey; the country's administrative, commercial, and cultural center.

Notes

Formerly known as Angora; home of Angora goats, famous for their fine wool.

Example Sentences

Police in Ankara, the Turkish capital, on May 10, 2019, arrested 18 students and one academic who participated in a Pride march at Middle East Technical University.

From Washington Blade

Known as the Guennol Stargazer, the marble piece had been on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for decades, but Ankara only objected when it was put up for sale by Christie’s four years ago.

From Ozy

They are on different sides of the long-running conflict, with Russia backing the regime of Bashar Assad and Turkey backing the opposition, but Moscow still helped enable Ankara’s offensive against the Kurdish forces Erdogan considers terrorists.

From Ozy

After that, “we weren’t really sure what the next step was,” Williams, the franchise player for the Atlanta Dream, said in a recent interview from Ankara, Turkey, where she plays for Botas Spor.

From Washington Post

In a nine-page ruling by Ankara’s 2nd Criminal Judgeship of Peace, government officials listed YPG’s Facebook page among several hundred social media URLs they considered problematic.

From ProPublica

For Ankara to allow a suicide bomber through to launch a flagrant attack at this moment also would appear to be odd timing.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, as Ihrig points out, Mussolini called himself “the Mustafa Kemal of a Milanese Ankara” as he began his own power-grab.

From The Daily Beast

But there is broad agreement between Washington and Ankara as to how the fight against ISIS should proceed, he said.

From The Daily Beast

Ankara sent its warplanes aloft—at last—but not to bomb ISIS.

From The Daily Beast

They see collusion and deception and they say Ankara is determined to subjugate them.

From The Daily Beast

He intended to do this tomorrow, somewhere between the oasis and Ankara, but the Pasha's son had presented an awkward problem.

From Project Gutenberg

The caravan for which Ali was handling camels came to an oasis one day out of Ankara and found another caravan already encamped.

From Project Gutenberg

But he felt that he could make it from here to Ankara without difficulty and he'd had more than his fill of the Pasha's son.

From Project Gutenberg

He saw a circus in Ankara, a football game in Budapest, a nullgrav wrestling match in Moscow.

From Project Gutenberg

There were some recent pictures of Khalid, including one taken as he left the plane on his return from Ankara.

From Project Gutenberg