Statistics for Turkish History A-Z

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Father of the modern Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	91%
K	This ethnic group has been suppressed by the Turkish government for several years and were forbidden from using their language until 1991	Kurds	85%
B	Dominant empire in the area before the Ottoman Empire	Byzantine Empire	84%
F	Tassled red hat that takes its name from a Moroccan city	Fez	83%
H	Museum that was turned into mosque in 2019	Hagia Sophia	82%
N	Prize won by Orhan Pamuk in 2006	Nobel Prize in Literature	82%
E	Controversial president who has been accused of eroding democracy since his election in 2014	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	79%
O	Train line that connected the Istanbul and Paris	{Orient} Express	71%
Q	Book that A wanted to be read in the Turkish language - but was refused	Quran	71%
C	War fought against Russia between 1853–56	{Crimean} War	68%
G	Failed ANZAC invasion site during WWI	Gallipoli	67%
R	Country that declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878	Romania	66%
S	"Magnificent" sultan who ruled the Ottoman Empire at its Golden Age	Suleiman I	62%
T	Ancient city that was home to Homer's "Iliad"	Troy	61%
L	British adventurer who helped command the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans	T.E. Lawrence	59%
U	Only Islamic empire that controlled larger territories than the Ottomans	{Umayyad} Caliphate	55%
X	Persian ruler who completely conquered the modern-day Turkey in 547 BC	Xerxes	55%
Y	Group of people that wanted to modernize and democratize the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s	{Young} Turks	53%
W	Huge number of Turkish workers immigrated to this country in the 1960s	West Germany	46%
D	Name for the followers of the Mevlevi Order	Whirling {Dervish}	40%
V	Battle where "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world"	Vienna	36%
J	Elite group of soldiers who where initially composed of kidnapped Christian boys who were converted to Islam	Janissaries	35%
I	Ancient Greek region in western coast of Anatolia	Ionia	32%
M	This was ordered to protect the Turkish democracy by A - which it did via several coups in 1960, 1971, 1980, 1993 and 1997	Military	31%
P	Word that is similar to a British peerage or knight	Pasha	25%