Places
- Something relating to or from Turkey, a modern-day nation
- Something relating to or from Turkestan, a region of Central Asia inhabited by Turkic peoples
- Something relating to or from the Ottoman Empire, the historic empire of Turkish people from the 13th to the early 20th century
- "The Turks", a common abbreviation for the Maumturks, the chain of mountains in the west of Ireland
- Turks and Caicos Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean
- Grand Turk Island in the Turks and Caicos Islands
- Turk, California, community in Fresno County
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