Turk

Turk, Turkic or Turkish may refer to:

Turkish may refer to:

Turk

  • one of any of the peoples speaking any of the Turkic languages.
  • Turkic peoples
  • A native or inhabitant of Turkey Turkey, or a member of Turkish language speaking minorities in neighboring areas (see Demographics of Russia)
  • the Young Turks, a political party in the late Ottoman Empire; the name later came to be applied to any ambitious and non-conformist young adult
  • The Turk, the first chess-playing automaton
  • Philippe Liégeois, the cartoonist's pen name
  • Turk (tailor), a tailor of country-western wear for musicians from the 1940s to the 1970s
  • Turk (rapper), was a rapper for the Cash Money Records label, one of the members of the Hot Boys
  • In the Ottoman Empire, Turk often referred to any Muslim as contrasted with a Christian or Jew
  • Grand Turk is an island that is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands, and overseas dependency of the United Kingdom
  • "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland

Turkic

Relating to the group of countries and places in Central Asia, Caucasus and parts of south-western Asia where the people share the same language family.

Turkish


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