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Turkish Newspaper Readers Encyclopedic Dictionary 'Z' Related Pages: Turkish Newsreaders Encyclopedic Dictionary, Index Ottoman Empire Encyclopedia, Index Turkish Culture -- Two Turkish traditions we especially like Turkish Culture -- 4 things you shouldn't do in Turkey Turkish Culture -- 5 things you should do in Turkey Turkish Superstitions Famous Femmes of Modern Turkish History Actress Suzan Avcı -- Born To Be Bad Circumcision and what many Turks believe about Westerners Turkish Movies, Index Turkish Movies - Best-Looking Bad Girl of the 1970s, Sevda Ferdağ Bad Girls of the 1970s Turkish Cinema, Aliye Rona Best and Worst Turkish Movies - with a religious theme (Dini Motifli Filmler) Sultry Aynur Aydan - The Woman Who Brought Down The Minister For English-speakers who wish to understand Turkish Newspapers World regions, bodies of water, land masses, mountain ranges, countries, cities, nationalities and languages -- plus notable persons, places, and things from current events and modern history, politics, art, law, business, etc. If you don't find the names, terms, or phrases you need here... click to let us know and we'll add them. Site visitors may navigate the News Reader pages using the News Readers Index Page. Turkish English Examples, supplements, and explanations Z     zafer victory   zam an increase in the price of something an increase in one's salary   zanlı [a] suspect, [the] accused baş zanlısı; [the] primary suspect zarar [a commercial] loss   Zengibar (Zengibarlı) Zanzibar (a person/thing from Zanzibar) ...a coral island in the Indian Ocean off the east-central African coast, part of the United Republic of Tanzania since 1964. zenginlik wealth, riches   zırhlı armored/armoured zırhlı araçlar; armored vehicles Zırhlı Tümen; Armored Division Zırhlı Tugay; Armored Brigade Zırhlı keşif aracı; Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle Zimbabve (Zimbabveli, İngilzce) Zimbabwe (a person/thing from Zimbabwe, the language of Zimbabwe [English]) In the News: 16 October 2001, President Mugabe forces price controls on certain commodities, declares in favor of a return to pure Socialist government. zina adultery; fornication In the News: August-September 2004... Wrangle over adultery -- EU members are up in arms about the attempt (by AKP religious-right ruling-party members of the Turkish Parliament) to criminalize adultery in the 'modernized' Turkish Criminal Code (TCK)... Adultery has long been viewed as a grounds-for-divorce in Turkey, though not a criminal act. But, when the EU called upon the Turkish parliament to modernize her criminal code (as a pre-condition for EU talks-that-might-lead-to-membership), religious-right AKP parliamentarians saw it as an opportunity to try to sneak through a few holier-than-thou laws. One, which would have criminalized adultery, brought a storm of protest from European critics. Loudest of all those crying FOUL! were EU women's-rights groups who were furious at the prospect of their Turkish sisters-to-be landing in jail -- just because of an 'innocent' bit-on-the-side. And, finally, after far too much huffy male-dominated AKP party-debate in public (and a bit of arm-twisting by Turkish PM Erdoğan in private), the attempt to criminalize adultery in Turkey was 'shuffled off to Buffalo'. There's more to come, friends... 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