Turk (nickname)

Turk or The Turk is a nickname for:


 * Turk Broda (Walter Edward Broda, 1914–72), a Canadian hockey player
 * Turk Edwards (Albert Glen Edwards, 1907–1973), American professional football player
 * Turk Lown (Omar Joseph Lown, 1924–2016), American baseball player
 * Turk McBride (Claude Maurice McBride, born 1985), American football player
 * Turk Murphy (Melvin Edward Alton Murphy, 1915–1987), trombonist and bandleader
 * Turk (rapper) (Tab Virgil Jr., born 1981), an American rapper
 * Carolina Duer (born 1978), known as "The Turk", Argentine world champion boxer
 * Gerard Gallant (born September 2, 1963), nicknamed “Turk”, Canadian ice hockey coach and former player
 * Derek Sanderson (born 1946), nicknamed "Turk", Canadian hockey player
 * Philippe Liégeois (born 1947), pen name "Turk", a Belgian comic book artist
 * Raymond Westerling (1919–87), nicknamed "The Turk", a Dutch officer who attempted a coup in Indonesia