Turk
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Turks and Turkish may refer to:
- Turkish people of Turkey (see also List of Turks)
- Citizens or residents of Turkey (see People of Turkey and Demographics of Turkey)
- In historical contexts, all Turkic peoples collectively
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Turk
- one of any of the peoples speaking any of the Turkic languages
- Turkic peoples
- A native or inhabitant of Turkey, or a member of Turkic speaking minorities in neighboring areas (see Demographics of Russia)
- An Azeri in Iran, with the Persian word tork.
- another name for Melungeon, especially in the Carolinas
- 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
- Amazon Mechanical Turk or MTurk, a web service
- Philippe Liégeois, whose pen name is Turk
- 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, regardless of ethnicity (as opposed to Ottoman non-Muslims)
- Grand Turk Island 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
- Turks (Final Fantasy VII) act as the task force of Shinra Corporation
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Turkic
Describing several related ethnic groups and their languages:
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