Look up Turk or turk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Turk or Turks may refer to: Turkish people, or the Turks, a Turkic ethnic group and nation Turkish...
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Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent...
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Turkish people (redirect from Ethnic Turks)
The Turks (Turkish: Türkler), or the Turkish people, are the largest Turkic ethnic group, comprising the majority of the population of Turkey and Northern...
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Cable News Network Türk (known as CNN Türk) is a Turkish free-to-air television news channel, launched on 11 October 1999 as the local affiliate of American...
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The Turks and Caicos Islands (abbreviated TCI; /ˈtɜːrks/ and /ˈkeɪkəs, -koʊs, -kɒs/) are a British Overseas Territory consisting of the larger Caicos...
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Turk, M.D., commonly referred to by his last name "Turk", is a fictional character in the American comedy-drama Scrubs, played by Donald Faison. Turk...
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(born February 8, 1981) better known by his stage name Turk (sometimes "Young Turk" or "Hot Boy Turk" or "CFOTAB"), is an American rapper from New Orleans...
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Big Turk is a candy bar manufactured by Nestlé in Canada, that consists of dark magenta Turkish delight coated in a chocolate coating. It is typically...
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Turk or The Turk is a nickname for: Turk Broda (1914–72), Canadian hockey player Carolina Duer (born 1978), known as "The Turk", Argentine world champion...
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Turk is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ahmet Türk (born 1942), Kurdish politician Alex Türk (born 1950), French politician Alexander...
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Volker Türk (born 27 August 1965) is an Austrian lawyer and United Nations official. He has been the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights since October...
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Michael Matthew-Paul Turk (born March 14, 1998) is an American professional football punter who is a free agent. He played college football for the Lafayette...
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The Turk Shahis or Kabul Shahis were a dynasty of Western Turk, or mixed Turko-Hephthalite, or a group of Hephthalites origin, that ruled from Kabul and...
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The Lustful Turk, or Lascivious Scenes from a Harem is a pre-Victorian British exploitation erotic epistolary novel first published anonymously in 1828...
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Grand Turk is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory, tropical islands in the Lucayan Archipelago of the Atlantic Ocean...
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Alexander Turk (March 5, 1906 – January 1, 1988) was a professional wrestling promoter and politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative...
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Türk Telekomünikasyon A.Ş. (lit. 'Turkish Telecommunications A.Ş.') is a state-owned Turkish telecommunications company. Türk Telekom was separated from...
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Matthew Edward Turk (born June 16, 1968) is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL). He...
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Afro-Turks (Turkish: Afrikalı Türkler) are Turkish people of African Zanj descent, who trace their origin to the Ottoman slave trade like the Afro-Abkhazians...
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Albaraka Türk was founded in 1984 in Istanbul Turkey and began actively serving in 1985 and commenced its commercial activities in 1985 as Albaraka Türk Özel...
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The Young Turks (Ottoman Turkish: ژون تركلر, romanized: Jön Türkler, also كنج تركلر Genç Türkler) formed as a constitutionalist broad opposition-movement...
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The Ili Turks (Chinese: 土尔克人; pinyin: Tǔ'ěrkè rén; lit. 'Turk people') are a Turkic ethnic group native to Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of northern...
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The Ottoman Turks (Turkish: Osmanlı Türkleri) were a Turkic ethnic group native to Anatolia. Originally from Central Asia, they migrated to Anatolia in...
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David M. Turk is an American attorney who served as the United States deputy secretary of energy in the Biden administration from 2021 to 2025. Turk was born...
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Turkic peoples (redirect from The Turks)
Tuvans, Uyghurs, Uzbeks, and Yakuts. The first known mention of the term Turk (Old Turkic: 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 Türük or 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰:𐰜𐰇𐰛 Kök Türük, Chinese: 突厥, Pinyin:...
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Rifaat "Jimmy" Turk (Arabic: رفعت ترك; Hebrew: רפעת טורק, nicknamed Jimmy the Rocket, born 16 September 1954) is an Israeli former footballer, manager...
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The Oghuz Turks (Middle Turkic: ٱغُز, romanized: Oγuz) were a western Turkic people who spoke the Oghuz branch of the Turkic language family. In the 8th...
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Turk 182 is a 1985 American action comedy-drama film directed by Bob Clark and starring Timothy Hutton, Robert Urich, Kim Cattrall, Robert Culp, and Peter...
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Berta Türk was born on 22 April 1888, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria), to parents Erzsébet Reiner and Gyula Türk. Her older brother, Max Türk, was...
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