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Marmara
[mahr-mer-uh]
noun
Sea of, a sea in NW Turkey, between European and Asian Turkey, connected with the Black Sea by the Bosporus, and with the Aegean by the Dardanelles. 4,300 sq. mi. (11,135 sq. km).
Marmara
/ ˈɑːəə /
noun
Ancient name: Propontis.a deep inland sea in NW Turkey, linked with the Black Sea by the Bosporus and with the Aegean by the Dardanelles: separates Turkey in Europe from Turkey in Asia. Area: 11 471 sq km (4429 sq miles)
Example Sentences
In 2010, Israeli commandos killed 10 people when they boarded Turkish ship Mavi Marmara that was leading an aid flotilla towards Gaza.
The PKK leader has been in solitary confinement in prison on an island in the Sea of Marmara, south-west of Istanbul, since 1999.
He is being held in Marmara high security prison in Silivri, on the outskirts of the city he was elected to run.
Ocalan, 75, had earlier met the MPs for several hours on Imrali, an island in the Sea of Marmara south-west of Istanbul where he has been imprisoned in solitary confinement since 1999.
But just a year later tensions reached breaking point when a ship, the Mavi Marmara, sailed from Istanbul to Gaza with volunteers and humanitarian aid to challenge Israel's maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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