Turkish - Turkish
Definition of nuri̇ in Turkish Turkish dictionary
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) Nura mensub, nura ait
- (Osmanlı Dönemi) Erkek ismidir
- nuri bilge ceylan
- Kasaba, Mayıs Sıkıntısı, Uzak gibi filmleriyle tanınmış sinema yönetmenimiz
- nuri halil poyraz
- Sorma dostum halimi, Sevda elinin bülbülü uçmuş, Gittin gideli ben deli divaneye döndüm gibi şarkılarıyla tanınmış bestecimiz
- nuri iyem
- Toplumsal gerçekçi içerikli figüratif resimleri ile tanınan Türk ressam
- medeni nuri efendi
- Son Osmanlı şeyhülislâmı
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English - English
Definition of nuri̇ in English English dictionary
- Nuri al-Said
- born 1888, Baghdad, Iraq died July 14, 1958, Baghdad Iraqi soldier and longtime prime minister of Iraq. He entered the army in 1909, when Iraq was a province of the Ottoman Empire. Captured by the British during World War I (1914-18), he joined a British-backed Arab revolt against the Ottomans. After the war he joined the Iraqi government under the Hshimite king Faysal I. Prime minister on 14 different occasions, he was pro-British and supported the monarchy. In 1958 he supported a union with Jordan that was strongly opposed by the military. He was killed in the coup that followed