Turkey
French: la Turquie
- Adana Antioche de Cilicie
- Ankara Angora (old fashioned)
- Antakya Antioche
- Bursa Brousse
- Edirne Andrinople
- Gelibolu Gallipoli
- Iskenderun Alexandrette
- Istanbul Istamboul
- Izmir Smyrne
- Izmit Nicomédie
- Iznik Nicée
- Kayseri Césarée de Cappadoce
- Trabzon Trébizonde
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Famous quotes containing the word turkey:
“You can make as good a design out of an American turkey as a Japanese out of his native stork.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“In the land of turkeys in turkey weather
At the base of the statue, we go round and round.
What a beautiful history, beautiful surprise!
Monsieur is on horseback. The horse is covered with mice.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.”
—Alistair Cooke (b. 1908)