Turk

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Turks, Turkish, or Turkic may refer to:

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  • A native or inhabitant of Turkey, or a member of Turkic speaking communities in Europe or Asia (see Demographics of Russia)
  • An Azeri in Iran, with the Persian word tork.
  • another name for Melungeon, especially in the Carolinas
  • the Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire; the name later came to be applied to any ambitious and non-conformist young adult
  • the Turk, the first chess-playing automaton
  • Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, a web service
  • Philippe Liégeois, whose pen name is Turk
  • Turk (rapper), was a rapper for the Cash Money Records label, one of the members of the Hot Boys
  • In the Ottoman Empire, Turk often referred to any Muslim, regardless of ethnicity (as opposed to Ottoman non-Muslims)
  • Grand Turk Island is an island that is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and overseas dependency of the United Kingdom
  • "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland
  • Turks (Final Fantasy VII) act as the task force of Shinra Corporation
  • Dr. Christopher Turk, a fictional character played by Donald Faison on the American sitcom Scrubs.
  • New Bomb Turks, a garage punk band.
  • Virgil Sollozzo, a character in The Godfather who is nicknamed "The Turk" because he has a nose like a Turkish scimitar and also because he does much of his business (growing poppy plants) in Turkey.

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Describing several related ethnic groups and their languages:

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