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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), 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 beginning with "Turk"
- Turkey (disambiguation)
- Turkish (disambiguation)
- Turk's Head (disambiguation)
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