Can you give me a definition of The Turks?

Question

Turks as in the ones that were involved in Muslim times with muhammad so yeah please include who,what,where,when,why.Thanks

Answer 1

There were of course the Ottoman Turks, who put together the Ottoman Empire, and today are confined to modern Turkey.

The Turkish languages are a huge group of related languages sprawled across Central and East Asia, as well as Turkey.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages

An interesting fact is that when one studies the Central Asian Turkic languages, for many of them an Iranian substratum is found; not all of these peoples are really "Turkish" in a geneological sense, but rather underwent language replacement by Turkic-speaking conquerors. Modern Turkish (spoken in Turkey) has undergone many changes, many of them lead by its academy; it is today perhaps the most 'regular' of all languages, with only one single irregular verb (that being 'to be').

The Turks of Turkey tend to see themselves as the leader of the Turkic-speaking nations and are attempting to put together a weaker version of something resembling the British Commonwealth.

Answer 2

The Turks had an Empire - the Turkish Empire

It was large, powerful and Muslim based. The Empire took Constantinople finally wiping out the Byzantine Empire and came very close to taking Vienna. The government was loosely organized which finally collapsed after WWI.

Its culture was advanced preserving knowledge of the greek and romans through the lows of the middle ages in Europe.

Answer 3

Turk |tərk|
noun
1 a native or national of Turkey, or a person of Turkish descent.
2 historical a member of any of the ancient central Asian peoples who spoke Turkic languages, including the Seljuks and Ottomans.
3 archaic a member of the ruling Muslim population of the Ottoman Empire.

ORIGIN late Middle English : via Old French from Turkish türk.

Answer 4

The turks are the race that now reside in turkey, remember that a large amount of turkeys population are inn the middle east and a lot of them are muslims. The Turks used to have an empire called the turkish empire, but that was taken over by the ottoman empire about 500 years ago. The ottoman empire was one of the longest lasting empires but collapsed in the early 20th century about the time of world war I.

There is some speculation that members of the same race colonised the area that is now turkmekistan or something like that, but it is mostly name similarities.

Answer 5

Have you read this book and what are your view or answers to the list below from this book?

The Truth About Muhammad
by Robert Spencer

Meet the real Muhammad:


Muhammad's bizarre reaction to his first "revelation": "I will go to the top of the mountain and throw myself down that I may kill myself"

The heretical Christian who convinced Muhammad he was a prophet – and may have taught him his erroneous views of Christianity

Islamic borrowings from Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism – and Muhammad's enraged replies to charges that he borrowed material rather than received actual divine revelations

The "revelation" that allowed Muhammad to marry his beautiful daughter-in-law

The strange incident in Muhammad's life that makes it virtually impossible to prove rape in Islamic countries today

The real "Satanic Verses" incident (not the Salman Rushdie version): how Muhammad's attempt to win over his opponents ended with his saying he had been inspired not by God, but by Satan

How the Qur'an's teaching on warfare against unbelievers developed – with constant war to establish the hegemony of Islamic law as the last stage

The first year of the Muslim calendar: not when Muhammad was born or became a prophet, but when he became a warlord

How Muhammad used the graphic lure of Islamic Paradise to urge his warriors to fight furiously to extend his rule

"Kill every Jew who comes into your power": why Muhammad became so angry with both Jews and Christians – with disastrous consequences that are still playing out in the world today

The momentous command by Muhammad that led to good being identified with anything that benefited the Muslims, and evil with anything that harmed them --without reference to any larger moral standard

Muhammad's child bride – and the terrible consequences his marriage to a nine-year-old still has in the Islamic world

"This is the caravan of the Quraysh possessing wealth. It is likely that Allah may give it to you as booty": how Muhammad gave divine sanction to the Muslims' bloody raids

"War is deceit": the permission Muhammad gave his followers to lie in order to gain an advantage over their enemies

How Muhammad broke the principal treaty he entered into, again setting a pattern for Muslim states thereafter

Muhammad's commands to his followers to wage perpetual war against non-Muslims, including Jews and Christians

Muhammad on women's rights: women "are prisoners with you having no control of their persons"

"If justice is not to be found with me then where will you find it?" Why Muhammad still stands for Muslims as the supreme model for human behavior

"I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula, and will not leave any but Muslims" – and other statements by Muhammad that contemporary jihadists take very seriously

Islamic tolerance? The onerous tax burden and other discriminatory regulations mandated for non-Muslims under Islamic law

How Muhammad ordered the killing of apostates from Islam

The massacre of a Jewish tribe by Muhammad that was invoked by modern-day jihadists at the beginning of Israel's July 2006 operations against Hizballah in Lebanon

"Embrace Islam, and your lives and property will be safe": Muhammad's threatening letters to the rulers of the lands around Arabia

Muhammad's frequent avowals that the Muslims would overcome the empires bordering on Arabia and one day stand as masters of the world

"I have been made victorious with terror" – and other statements of Muhammad on his deathbed

Six steps that American leaders can and must take in order to protect our nation from Islamic jihad terrorism