Turkey (disambiguation) explained

Turkey or Türkiye is a transcontinental country straddling West Asia and Southeast Europe.

Turkey may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• Turkey (bird), the genus Meleagris of large birds native to North America and Central America
  • Turkey meat, the meat of the bird

Arts and entertainment

• "The Turkey", a short story by Flannery O'Connor
• The Turkey (film), a 1951 French film
• Turkeys (film) or Free Birds, a 2013 American animated film

People

• Turkey Tayac (1895–1978), American Indian leader and herbal doctor
• Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (–2001), Australian Indigenous artist
• Turkey (nickname)

Places

• Turkey, Limpopo, a town in South Africa
• Turkey, North Carolina, a town
• Turkey, Texas, a city
• Turkey Brook, Hertfordshire, England
• Turkey Mountain (Georgia)
• Turkey Mountain (New York)
• Turkey Ponds, two connected ponds in New Hampshire
• Turkey River (Iowa)
• Turkey River (New Hampshire)
• Turkey Run (West Branch Susquehanna River tributary), a river in Pennsylvania
• Turkey Creek (disambiguation)
• Turkey Island (disambiguation)

Other uses

• Turkey (bowling), a bowling term used to denote three consecutive strikes
• Hotel Turkey, a hotel in Turkey, Texas
• USS Turkey (AM-13), a minesweeper laid down in 1917
• USS Turkey (AMS-56), a minesweeper laid down in 1943
• Turkeybeating, the legal term for being cruel to a waterfowl

See also

• Little Turkey (1758–1801), a Cherokee leader
• Turkey moray, an eel found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans
• Turkey vulture or turkey buzzard, a scavenger bird native to the Americas
• Brushturkey, birds native to Oceania
• Turke (disambiguation)
• Turki (disambiguation)
• Turkiye (disambiguation)
• Turky (disambiguation)