- "Turkish" redirects here.
Turk or Turkish may refer to:
Places
- Something relating to or from Turkey
- 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
- The Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
- Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Languages
People / Groups
- A member of the Turkic peoples
- A member of the Turkish people
- A citizen or a resident of Republic of Turkey
- A member of a Mestee group living in South Carolina. Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish Na Sléibhte Mhám Toirc (The Maumturks / Maamturks, the Turks (fam The Turks and Caicos Islands ( TCI) (ˈtɜːks ænd ˈkeɪkəs are a British Overseas Territory consisting of two groups of tropical islands in the West Indies Grand Turk Island is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Turkic languages constitute a Language family of some thirty languages spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Turkish ( tr Türkçe IPA) is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. The Turkic peoples are Eurasian peoples residing in northern central and western Eurasia who speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family The Turkish people (Türk Halkı also known as " Turks " ( Türkler) are defined mainly as being speakers of Turkish as a First language Turkey (Türkiye known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( is a Eurasian Country that stretches
- The Göktürks, a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia
- A Muslim subject of the Ottoman Empire, though this use is archaic
- An Azeri in Iran
- The Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire
- The Turks (Final Fantasy VII), a group of characters in a series of video games
- New Bomb Turks, a garage punk band
Individuals
- Danilo Türk, president of Slovenia. Göktürks ( Turkish: Gök Türkler) were a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia. A Muslim (مسلم pronounced Muslim, not Muzlim) is an adherent of the Religion The Ottoman Empire (1299–1923 ( Old Ottoman Turkish: دولتْ علیّه عثمانیّه Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye, Late Ottoman and Modern Turkish The Azerbaijanis are an Ethnic group mainly in the Republic of Azerbaijan and northwestern Iran. The Young Turks ( Turkish: Jön Türkler (plural from French: Jeunes Turcs) were a coalition of various groups favoring reforming the Square 's Final Fantasy VII was one of the first major Console role-playing games released for the Sony PlayStation and was Square's largest game The New Bomb Turks are a Garage punk band from Columbus Ohio. Danilo Türk (tyrk born February 19, 1952 in Maribor) is a Slovenian lawyer and diplomat and current President of Slovenia. President is a Title leaders of Organizations companies, Trade unions universities, and countries. Slovenia, officially the Republic of Slovenia (Republika Slovenija) is a Country in southern Central Europe bordering Italy to the west
- Turk (rapper), a rapper for the Cash Money Records label, one of the members of the Hot Boys
- Christopher Turk, a character played by Donald Faison on the American sitcom Scrubs
- Philippe Liégeois, a comic book artist whose pen name is Turk
- Virgil Sollozzo, a character in The Godfather who is nicknamed "The Turk"
Technology
TV episodes
See also
Turk is a southern rapper from New Orleans. He is one of the former members of a popular group known as the "Hot Boy$" under the record label Cash Money along Philippe Liégeois is a Belgian Comic book artist, born on 8 July 1947. Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo is a fictional character in Mario Puzo 's The Godfather. The Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a Chess -playing machine constructed in the late 18th century and exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years by various The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk is one of the suite of Amazon Web Services, a Crowdsourcing marketplace that enables computer programs to co-ordinate the use of Terminator The Sarah Connor Chronicles is an American Science fiction Television series produced by Warner Bros
Dictionary
Turk
-proper noun
- A member of any of the numerous ethnic groups whose majority have lived a nomadic life on the vast Eurasian steppe, speaking Turkic languages.
- (considered nonstandard) A person from Turkey.
- A member of a Mestee group in South Carolina.
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