Character of operations in the borders of Turkey (5)
I believe the answer is:
topsy
'character' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'operations in the borders of turkey' is the wordplay.
'operations' becomes 'ops' (abbreviation).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the borders of' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters).
'turkey' with its middle removed is 'ty'.
'ops' placed into 'ty' is 'TOPSY'.
'of' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for topsy that I've seen before include "Girl in Uncle Tom's Cabin" , "character in Stowe" .)