Turk

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"Turkish" redirects here.

Turk or Turkish may refer to:

[edit] 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

[edit] Languages

• The Turkic languages family
• The Turkish language

[edit] 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.
• 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

[edit] Individuals

• Danilo Türk, president of Slovenia.
• 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"

[edit] Technology

• The Turk, the first chess-playing automaton
• Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, a web service

[edit] TV episodes

• The Turk, an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[edit] See also

• List of pages beginning with Turkish
• Turkey (disambiguation)