Turk

Turk or Turks most often refers to :

• Turkic peoples, a collection of ethnic groups that speak languages belonging to the Turkic language family
• Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group that belong to the Oghuz branch and live in Turkey
• Turkish citizens, all citizens of the Republic of Turkey, irrespective of ethnicity

The terms may also refer to:

People

• Turk (caste), a Muslim community in Uttar Pradesh, India
• a variant name for Melungeon in colonial North America
• Turk (surname)
• Turk (nickname), a list of people
• Turk (comics), pen name of Belgian comic book artist Philippe Liégeois
• Turk (rapper), a New Orleans rapper

Places

• Turks Islands, part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory
• "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland
• Turk, California, an unincorporated community
• Turk Site, an archaeological site in Kentucky
• Özer Türk Stadium, football venue in Kuşadası, Turkey

Fiction

• Turks (TV series), a short-lived CBS police drama
• The Turk, a 17th-century play by British dramatist John Mason
• The Turk (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles), an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

Fictional characters and groups

• Turks (Final Fantasy VII), minor antagonists in the video game Final Fantasy VII and supporting characters in the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII series
• Turks, a motorcycle club in the 1985 film Mask
• Christopher Turk, generally known as "Turk", a character on the TV series Scrubs
• Virgil Sollozzo, a character in the film The Godfather nicknamed "The Turk"
• Turkish, a character in Snatch (film) (2000)
  • 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

Other uses

• The Turk, a fake chess-playing machine

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Turk
• Turkey (disambiguation)
• Turkish (disambiguation)
• Turk's Head (disambiguation)