Turk
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Turk may refer to:
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[edit] Places
- Something relating to or from Turkey, a modern-day nation
- Something relating to or from Turkestan, a region of Central Asia inhabited by Turkic peoples
- 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
- Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
- Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Turk, California, community in Fresno County
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[edit] People / Groups
- Turkic peoples
- Turkish people, people descended from Turks of the Ottoman Empire, now most of them are living in Turkey
- Göktürks, a Turkic people of ancient Central Asia
- Seljuq Turks
- Ottoman Turks
- Turk (caste), a Muslim community found in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Turk Jamat, a Muslim community found in Gujarat, India
- Azerbaijani people ethnic group found in Iran and Azerbaijan
- Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire
- Iraqi Turkmen
- Karlugh Turks, an ethnic group found in Pakistan
- Oghuz Turks
[edit] Individuals
- Turk (surname)
- Turk (rapper), a rapper for the Cash Money Records label, one of the members of the Hot Boys
- Philippe Liégeois, a comic book artist whose pen name is Turk
[edit] Technology
- The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine
- Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, is an Amazon web service that pays individuals to perform tasks.
[edit] Fiction
- Turks (Final Fantasy VII), minor antagonists in the video game Final Fantasy VII and supporting characters in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series
- Christopher Turk, generally known as "Turk", a character on the TV series Scrubs
- Virgil Sollozzo, a character in The Godfather who is nicknamed "The Turk"
- Turkish, a character in Snatch (film) (2000)
- The Turk (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- The Turk a chess computer from the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
- Turk Barrett, a secondary character from the Daredevil comics
- Terry Lynch, a character in the film Turk 182 whose nickname is Turk
[edit] See also
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