Turk (nickname) explained

Turk or The Turk is a nickname for:

• Turk Broda (Walter Edward Broda, 1914–72), a Canadian hockey player
• Turk Edwards (Albert Glen Edwards, 1907–1973), American professional football player
• Turk Lown (Omar Joseph Lown, 1924–2016), American baseball player
• Turk McBride (Claude Maurice McBride, born 1985), American football player
• Turk Murphy (Melvin Edward Alton Murphy, 1915–1987), trombonist and bandleader
• Turk (rapper) (Tab Virgil Jr., born 1981), an American rapper
• Carolina Duer (born 1978), known as "The Turk", Argentine world champion boxer
• Gerard Gallant (born September 2, 1963), nicknamed “Turk”, Canadian ice hockey coach and former player
• Derek Sanderson (born 1946), nicknamed "Turk", Canadian hockey player
• Philippe Liégeois (born 1947), pen name "Turk", a Belgian comic book artist
• Raymond Westerling (1919–87), nicknamed "The Turk", a Dutch officer who attempted a coup in Indonesia

See also

• Turk (disambiguation)
• Turk (surname)
• El Turco (Spanish, 'The Turk'), a list of people with the nickname
• Faymonville, Belgium, whose inhabitants are nicknamed Turks
• Llanelli, Wales, whose inhabitants are nicknamed Turks
• Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1655–1707), known as Türkenlouis ('Turkish Louis')