Turkish custom called for the senior member of the family to be the Great Seljuq, although usually the position was associated with the ruler of western Persia.

While in Athens, he became aware of the Turkish custom of throwing a woman found guilty of adultery into the sea wrapped in a sack.

The culture of Dilman is very rich with ethnic Azeri and Turkish customs.

Although well received as an entertaining travelogue, his book has been criticized as being very anti-Hellenic as well as sometimes naive about Turkish customs.

But Mr. Simsek never learned a word of Danish or forsook Turkish customs.

Nargile was such an important Turkish custom that it even sparked a diplomatic crisis between France and the Ottoman Empire.

We were held up for three hours yesterday, Turkish customs, when they found the damned thing He shook his head.

In 2003, the Turkish customs introduced the latest systems at three border crossings, allowing vehicles passing through those crossings to be checked by scanners.

So, too, it would accord with Turkish customs and the Sultan's present desires.

Apparently the Arabs have copied the old Turkish custom of giving their white eunuchs the names of flowers.