# Turk

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**Turk** or **Turks** may refer to:

## Communities and ethnic groups

- [Turkish people](/source/Turkish_people), or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation
- [Turkish citizen](/source/Turkish_citizen), a citizen of the Republic of Turkey
- [Turkic peoples](/source/Turkic_peoples), a collection of ethnic groups who speak Turkic languages
- Turks, reference to the [Ottoman Empire](/source/Ottoman_Empire)
- [Turk (term for Muslims)](/source/Turk_(term_for_Muslims)), used by non-Muslim Balkan peoples
- [Turks of South Carolina](/source/Turks_of_South_Carolina), a group of people in the US
- "Turks", nickname for inhabitants of [Faymonville](/source/Faymonville), Liège, Belgium
- "Turks", nickname for inhabitants of [Llanelli](/source/Llanelli), Carmarthenshire, Wales

## People

- [Turk (surname)](/source/Turk_(surname)), a list of people with the name
- [Turk (nickname)](/source/Turk_(nickname)), a list of people with the nickname
- [Turk (rapper)](/source/Turk_(rapper)), stage name of American rapper Tab Virgil Jr. (born 1981)
- [Philippe Liégeois](/source/Philippe_Li%C3%A9geois) (born 1947), pen name "Turk", Belgian comic book artist
- [Al-Turk](/source/Al-Turk), a list of people with the name

## Places

- [Brig o' Turk](/source/Brig_o'_Turk), a small rural village in Scotland
- [Turks Islands](/source/Turks_Islands), part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, West Indies
- [Turk Site](/source/Turk_Site), an archaeological site in Kentucky, US

## Arts and entertainment

### Fictional entities

- [Turks (*Final Fantasy VII*)](/source/Turks_(Final_Fantasy_VII)), from the video game *Final Fantasy VII*
- Turks, a motorcycle club from the 1985 film *[Mask](/source/Mask_(1985_film))*
- [Christopher Turk](/source/Christopher_Turk), from the TV series *Scrubs*
- [Turk Barrett](/source/Turk_Barrett), from Marvel comics
- Terry Lynch, from the 1985 film *[Turk 182](/source/Turk_182)*
- The Turk, a chess computer from a self-titled episode of the TV series *[Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles](/source/Terminator:_The_Sarah_Connor_Chronicles)*
- [Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo](/source/Virgil_Sollozzo), a character from the 1972 film *The Godfather*
- [Turk Malloy](/source/Turk_Malloy), a member of Danny Ocean's heist crew from the 2001 film *Ocean's Eleven*

### Works

- [*The Turk* (play)](/source/The_Turk_(play)), by John Mason
- "Turk", a track on the 2007 album *[Death Is This Communion](/source/Death_Is_This_Communion)* by High on Fire
- [*Turks* (TV series)](/source/Turks_(TV_series)), a 1999 American police drama
- ["Turks" (song)](/source/Turks_(song)), a 2020 song by Nav and Gunna

## Other uses

- [*Türk* (magazine)](/source/T%C3%BCrk_(magazine)), periodical published by the Committee of Union and Progress in Cairo between 1903 and 1907

## See also

- [Turkmen (disambiguation)](/source/Turkmen_(disambiguation))
- [Turk's Head (disambiguation)](/source/Turk's_Head_(disambiguation))
- [Turck (disambiguation)](/source/Turck_(disambiguation))
- [Turku](/source/Turku), a city in Finland
- [Mechanical Turk](/source/Mechanical_Turk) or The Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century

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