Turk or Turks may refer to:
Communities and ethnic groups
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Fictional entities
[edit]- Turks (Final Fantasy VII), in the video game Final Fantasy VII
- Turks, a motorcycle club in 1985 film Mask
- Christopher Turk, in the TV series Scrubs
- Turk Barrett, in Marvel comics
- Terry Lynch, in the 1985 film Turk 182
- The Turk, a chess computer from TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and the title of an episode
- Virgil Sollozzo, nicknamed "The Turk", an antagonist in the 1972 film The Godfather
- Turk Malloy, a member of Danny Ocean's heist crew in the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven
Works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- All pages with titles beginning with Turk
- 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