Turkish may refer specifically to:
- Something of, from, or related to Turkey, a country in Eurasia (or specific earlier stages of its Turkish history):
- Great Seljuq Empire
- Seljuk Turks
- Ottoman Empire
- Ottoman Turks
- Great Seljuq Empire
- People from Turkey or of Turkish ancestry
- Turkish people, people of Turkish descent with or without Turkish citizenship
- Turkish minorities, people of Turkish descent who have been living outside of Turkey prior to its independence
- Turkish citizens, citizens of Turkey regardless of ethnicity (see demographics of Turkey)
- Turkish language
- Old Anatolian Turkish language
- Ottoman Turkish language
- Cypriot Turkish
- Culture of Turkey
- Obsoletely, in a historical context, the Turkic peoples
Famous quotes containing the word turkish:
“A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism & opium—the Spanish from pride—the English from coolness—the Dutch from obstinacy—the Russian from insensibility—but the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)