Turk Explained

Turk or Turks may refer to:

Communities and ethnic groups

• Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
• Turkish citizen, a citizen of the Republic of Turkey
• Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
• Turks, reference to the Ottoman Empire
• Turk (term for Muslims), used by non-Muslim Balkan peoples
• Turks of South Carolina, a group of people in the US
• "Turks", nickname for inhabitants of Faymonville, Liège, Belgium
• "Turks", nickname for inhabitants of Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales

People

• Turk (surname), a list of people with the name
• Turk (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
• Turk (rapper) (Tab Virgil Jr., born 1981), an American rapper
• Philippe Liégeois (born 1947), pen name "Turk", a Belgian comic book artist
• Al-Turk, a list of people with the name

Places

• Brig o' Turk, a small rural village in Scotland
• Turks Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, West Indies
• Turk Site, an archaeological site in Kentucky, US

Arts and entertainment

Fictional entities

• Turks (Final Fantasy VII), from the video game Final Fantasy VII
• Turks, a motorcycle club from the 1985 film Mask
• Christopher Turk, from the TV series Scrubs
• Turk Barrett, from Marvel comics
• Terry Lynch, from the 1985 film Turk 182
• The Turk, a chess computer from a self-titled episode of the TV series
• Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, an character from the 1972 film The Godfather
• Turk Malloy, a member of Danny Ocean's heist crew from the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven

Works

• The Turk (play), by John Mason
• "Turk", a track on the 2007 album Death Is This Communion by High on Fire
• Turks (TV series), a 1999 American police drama
• "Turks" (song), a 2020 song by Nav and Gunna

Other uses

• Türk (magazine), periodical published by the Committee of Union and Progress in Cairo between 1903 and 1907
• Mechanical Turk or The Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century

See also

• • Grand Turk (disambiguation)
• Turcopole (literally "sons of Turks"), mounted archers and light cavalry employed by the Byzantine Empire and the Crusader states
• Turkey (disambiguation)
• Turkish (disambiguation)
• Turk's Head (disambiguation)
• Turck (disambiguation)
• Turku, a city in Finland
• Maumturks, a mountain range in Ireland
• Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing website