Turkish History A-Z - Statistics

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Answer Stats

	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Father of the modern Turkey	Mustafa Kemal Atatürk	94%
B	Dominant empire in the area before the Ottoman Empire	Byzantine Empire	84%
K	This ethnic group has been suppressed by the Turkish government for several years and were forbidden from using their language until 1991	Kurds	82%
F	Tassled red hat that takes its name from a Moroccan city	Fez	80%
H	Museum that was turned into mosque in 2019	Hagia Sophia	79%
N	Prize won by Orhan Pamuk in 2006	Nobel Prize in Literature	79%
E	Controversial president who has been accused of eroding democracy since his election in 2014	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	79%
Q	Book that A wanted to be read in the Turkish language - but was refused	Quran	69%
O	Train line that connected the Istanbul and Paris	{Orient} Express	68%
C	War fought against Russia between 1853–56	{Crimean} War	67%
G	Failed ANZAC invasion site during WWI	Gallipoli	65%
R	Country that declared its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1878	Romania	63%
S	"Magnificent" sultan who ruled the Ottoman Empire at its Golden Age	Suleiman I	62%
L	British adventurer who helped command the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans	T.E. Lawrence	60%
T	Ancient city that was home to Homer's "Iliad"	Troy	60%
X	Persian ruler who completely conquered the modern-day Turkey in 547 BC	Xerxes	53%
U	Only Islamic empire that controlled larger territories than the Ottomans	{Umayyad} Caliphate	52%
Y	Group of people that wanted to modernize and democratize the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s	{Young} Turks	51%
W	Huge number of Turkish workers immigrated to this country in the 1960s	West Germany	44%
J	Elite group of soldiers who where initially composed of kidnapped Christian boys who were converted to Islam	Janissaries	39%
D	Name for the followers of the Mevlevi Order	Whirling {Dervish}	37%
V	Battle where "the Ottoman Turks ceased to be a menace to the Christian world"	Vienna	36%
I	Ancient Greek region in western coast of Anatolia	Ionia	34%
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	30%
P	Word that is similar to a British peerage or knight	Pasha	25%

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