Turkocentric

English

Alternative forms

• Turcocentric

Etymology

From Turko- +‎ -centric.

Adjective

Turkocentric (comparative more Turkocentric, superlative most Turkocentric)

1. Centered or focusing on Turkey.
   • 1955, Geoffrey Lewis, Turkey, London: Ernest Benn Limited, page 189:

     A clear demonstration of the Turks' belief in a Turcocentric universe was given in April 1953, when a Swedish cargo-vessel, the Naboland, collided with the Turkish submarine Dumlupınar, in the Dardanelles.

   • 2001, Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 107:

     Some Turks are less than comfortable with their land's pre-Islamic history. They worry that if they celebrate their Arabian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian and Georgian pasts, Turkey will seem less theirs. Taught from childhood that they are descended from Turkic tribes that followed the legendary gray wolf out of Central Asia in the tenth century, many of them have an insular Turkocentric view of the world, reinforced by the government's having changed hundreds of place-names to make them sound more Turkish.

Derived terms

• Turkocentricity

 

References

• “Turcocentric, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.