Turk

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Turk or Turkish may refer to:

[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
• The 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

[edit] Languages

• The Turkic languages family
• The Turkish language
• Turkish alphabet

[edit] People / Groups

• A member of the Turkic peoples
• A member of the Turkish people or resident of Republic of Turkey
• 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

[edit] Individuals

• Željko Turk, mayor of Zaprešić, Croatia
• Danilo Türk, president of Slovenia
• 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 chess-playing automaton
• Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, is an Amazon web service that pays individuals to perform tasks.

[edit] Fiction

• The Turks are 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 the 2000 film Snatch
• Turks, a 1999 TV series starring William Devane
• The Turk, an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • The Turk a chess computer from the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

[edit] See also

• All pages beginning with "Turk"
• All pages beginning with "Turkish"
• Turkey (disambiguation)

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