American flag abused in Turkey/Arab battle (9)
I believe the answer is:
trafalgar
'battle' is the definition.
(Trafalgar is an example)
'american flag abused in turkeyarab' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'american' could be 'a' (common abbreviation - e.g. in organisation names) and 'a' is present in the answer.
an anagram of 'flag' is 'falg' which is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for trafalgar that I've seen before include "Cape" , "British naval victory" , "Victory of 1805" , "Public space in central London" , "Famous naval battle" .)