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Pide

Turkish, from Persian pideh · pronounced pee-DEH

A Turkish leavened flatbread, most distinctively shaped into a long boat-like form with folded, pinched edges enclosing toppings such as cheese, spiced minced meat, sucuk (Turkish sausage), or egg. Often marketed in English-language food writing as 'Turkish pizza' for its shared hot-oven, topped-dough format, though Turkish culinary sources and reference works generally describe it as a distinct bread tradition rather than a pizza variant.

Literal meaning

Flatbread

Region

Turkey

Also known as

İçli pide

Common misuse

Describing pide simply as 'Turkish pizza' — a common English-language shorthand not generally used by Turkish culinary sources themselves, given the boat shape, dough type, and standalone bread tradition it belongs to.

Evidence

Generally accepted