young Turks
Impatient new blood
Young Turks are ambitious younger members of an organization who push for radical change, often challenging established leadership.
The term suggests impatience with tradition and eagerness to shake things up: The young Turks in the party are demanding new leadership.
Usually plural and often lowercase.
Those fighting established authority
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
- radicalsAdvocates for fundamental change
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
- agitatorsThose who incite disturbance
revolutionaries · upstarts · firebrands · militants · provocateurs · iconoclasts · mavericks · renegades
Presumptuous newly successful people
- challengersThose who compete against
- newcomersThose recently arrived
- usurpersWrongful seizure perpetrators
- outsidersThose not belonging
game-changers · disruptors · rising stars · fresh blood · new wave
Social reform advocates
- modernizersThose who update outdated systems
- advocatesThose who support causes
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
- activistsPeople working for causes
organizers · crusaders · champions · trailblazers · pioneers · vanguard · visionaries · idealists
insurgents
Those fighting established authority
- reformersAdvocates for institutional improvement
- radicalsAdvocates for fundamental change
- dissidentsPolitical objectors
agitators · revolutionaries · upstarts · firebrands · militants · provocateurs · iconoclasts · mavericks · renegades · rabble-rousers
upstarts
Presumptuous newly successful people
- challengersThose who compete against
- newcomersThose recently arrived
- usurpersWrongful seizure perpetrators
outsiders · game-changers · disruptors · rising stars · fresh blood · new wave
progressives
Social reform advocates
- modernizersThose who update outdated systems
- advocatesThose who support causes
- campaignersPeople promoting a cause
activists · organizers · crusaders · champions · trailblazers · pioneers · vanguard · visionaries · idealists · transformers
young Turksold guard
Conservative faction within organization
the powers that be · insiders · incumbents · mandarins · apparatchiks
young Turksconservatives
Advocates for gradual change
traditionalists · reactionaries · stick-in-the-muds · moderates · gradualists
young Turksold guard
Conservative faction within organization
elder statesmen · veterans · elders · graybeards · old hands
young, younger, youngest, youngster, youngsters, Turks, Turkish, Turkey