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Turk


Turk or '''Turkish''' may refer to: __NOTOC__

Places


- Something relating to or from Turkey, a modern-day nation
- Something relating to or from Turkestan, a region of Central Asia inhabited by Turkic peoples
- Something relating to or from the Ottoman Empire, the historic empire of Turkish people from the 13th to the early 20th century
- "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland
- Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
- Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Turk, California, community in Fresno County

Languages


- Turkic languages family
- Turkish language
- Turkish alphabet

People / Groups


- Turkic peoples
- Turkish people or resident of Turkey|Republic of Turkey
- Göktürks, a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia
- Muslim, though this use is archaic
- Azeri in Iran
- Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire
- Iraqi Turkmen

Individuals


- Željko Turk, mayor of Zaprešić, Croatia
- Danilo Türk, president of Slovenia
- Turk (rapper), a rapper for the Cash Money Records label, one of the members of the Hot Boys
- Philippe Liégeois, a comic book artist whose pen name is Turk

Technology


- The Turk, a chess-playing automaton
- Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, is an Amazon web service that pays individuals to perform tasks.

Fiction


- The Characters of Final Fantasy VII#Turks|Turks are minor antagonists in the video game ''Final Fantasy VII'' and supporting characters in the ''Compilation of Final Fantasy VII'' series
- Christopher Turk, generally known as "Turk", a character on the TV series ''Scrubs''
- Virgil Sollozzo, a character in ''The Godfather'' who is nicknamed "The Turk"
- Turkish, a character in the 2000 film ''Snatch (film)|Snatch''
- Turks (TV series)|Turks, a 1999 TV series starring William Devane
- The Turk (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles)|The Turk, an episode of ''Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles''
    - ''The Turk'' a chess computer from the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

See also


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- Turkey (disambiguation)

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