Sentence:  In `` The King 's Ride '' , Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia , regains his old self , escapes from <WSD>Turkey</WSD> , and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923