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Turbo (2024 film)

Turbo (ടർബോ) is a 2024 Malayalam action comedy thriller directed by Vysakh, written by Midhun Manuel Thomas, starring Mammootty as jeep driver Turbo Jose, with Raj B Shetty as villain; released May 23, 2024 by Mammootty Kampany.

Turbo (group)

Turbo (터보) is a South Korean dance-pop group formed in 1995, first a duo of Kim Jung-nam and Kim Jong-kook, later a trio with Mikey, reuniting in 2015.

Turbo (Judas Priest album)

Turbo (1986) is the tenth studio album by British heavy metal band Judas Priest, produced by Tom Allom on CBS/Columbia. Known for its guitar synthesizers, the single "Turbo Lover", UK No. 33 and US No. 17 chart peaks, RIAA platinum status, and the 2017 Turbo 30 3CD reissue.

Turbo (music producer)

Turbo (Turbo the Great), Atlanta trap producer born 1994 in College Park, Georgia; known for Gunna and Lil Baby's Diamond "Drip Too Hard," the "Run dat back, Turbo" tag, and The Playmakers collective.

Turbo FAST

Turbo FAST (Turbo F.A.S.T.) is DreamWorks Animation's animated snail-racing series, Netflix's first original kids show, premiered December 24, 2013, created by Chris Prynoski, three seasons, removed from Netflix April 2023.

Turbo Kid

Turbo Kid (2015), also known from its short T Is for Turbo, is a Canadian-New Zealand post-apocalyptic action-comedy by RKSS, starring Munro Chambers and Michael Ironside, set in 1997 with BMX bikes and gore.

Turbo Recordings

Turbo Recordings is a Canadian record label founded in Montreal in 1998 by Tiga, whose catalog of over 300 records launched Gesaffelstein, Charlotte de Witte, and Chromeo.

Turbo-folk

Turbo-folk (турбо-фолк) is a Serbian pop-folk fusion genre that emerged in the early 1990s from newly composed folk music, blending folk melodies with techno, dance, and hip-hop beats.

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie

Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie is a 1997 American children's science fiction film in which the Rangers use new Turbo powers to stop the space pirate Divatox.

Turbonegro

Turbonegro (Turboneger in Norway) is a Norwegian deathpunk rock band formed in Oslo in 1988 or 1989, known for Ass Cobra, Apocalypse Dudes, the 1998-2002 breakup and comeback, the Turbojugend fan clubs, and the Rockheim Hall of Fame.

Turbulence (2025 film)

Turbulence (2025 film), also released as Turbulencia and タービュランス, is a Claudio Fäh survival thriller starring Olga Kurylenko, Jeremy Irvine, Kelsey Grammer, and Hera Hilmar: a couple's Dolomites hot air balloon trip is hijacked by a passenger tied to Zach's past. Lionsgate released it December 12, 2025; it holds 27% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Turducken

Turducken: a deboned chicken stuffed inside a deboned duck inside a deboned turkey, also called a three-bird roast; associated with Louisiana Cajun cooking, Paul Prudhomme, Hebert's Specialty Meats, John Madden, and USDA 165 °F cooking guidance.

Turf Talk

Turf Talk is the stage name of Demar Bernstein, a rapper from Vallejo, California and cousin of E-40, best known as a distinctive voice of the Bay Area's hyphy movement.

Turgut Uyar

Turgut Uyar, full name Ahmet Turgut Uyar, was a Turkish poet and civil servant, a leading figure of the İkinci Yeni movement that reshaped Turkish poetry from the mid-1950s.

Turisas

Turisas is a Finnish folk and symphonic metal band from Hämeenlinna, formed in 1997 by Mathias Nygård and Jussi Wickström and known for coining "battle metal".

Turistas

Turistas, released in the UK as Paradise Lost, is a 2006 American horror-thriller directed by John Stockwell, in which stranded backpackers in rural Brazil fall victim to an organ-harvesting operation.

Turk (rapper)

Turk (Tab Virgil Jr., Young Turk) is a New Orleans rapper, member of the Hot Boys with Juvenile, B.G., and Lil Wayne; solo debut Young & Thuggin' (2001) hit #2 R&B; imprisoned 2004-2012, later independent with YNT Empire.

Turk Barrett

Turk Barrett is a Marvel Comics small-time Hell's Kitchen criminal created by Roy Thomas and Gene Colan, debuting in Daredevil #69 (1970). Known for losing fights in stolen villain suits, he appears in all six Netflix Marvel shows played by Rob Morgan.

Türk Yurdu

Türk Yurdu (Turkish Homeland) is a Turkish nationalist ideas magazine first published in Istanbul in November 1911, described as the longest-lived journal championing the Turkism movement.

Turkey in the Eurovision Song Contest

Turkey (Türkiye) at Eurovision: TRT entered 34 contests from its 1975 debut to 2012, won once with Sertab Erener's "Everyway That I Can" (2003), hosted Istanbul 2004, and withdrew after 2012 over rule dissatisfaction and government objections.

Turkey in the Straw

Turkey in the Straw, also known as Old Zip Coon, is a 19th-century American folk tune. It was copyrighted in 1861 and is famous for its use in Steamboat Willie.

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula

Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula (c. 1938 – 2001) was a Pintupi artist of the Western Desert who painted for Papunya Tula and was known for his Spear Straightening paintings.

Türkisch für Anfänger

Türkisch für Anfänger (Turkish for Beginners) is a 2012 German comedy film, Bora Dagtekin's directing debut, adapting his ARD series; Lena Schneider and Cem Öztürk strand on a desert island after a plane crash.

Turkish classical music

Turkish classical music, also called Turkish art music (Türk sanat müziği), is the makam-based art music that developed in the Ottoman court and dervish lodges.

Turkish coffee

Turkish coffee (Türk kahvesi) is a brewing method, not a bean: finely ground coffee boiled unfiltered in a cezve, served with foam and settled grounds. UNESCO-inscribed 2013; distinctive phytochemical profile; studied for cardiovascular effects.

Turkish crime fiction

Turkish crime fiction, or polisiye edebiyatı, is the tradition of detective, crime, and thriller writing in Turkish, beginning in 1884 with Ahmet Mithat Efendi's Esrâr-ı Cinâyât and led today by Ahmet Ümit.

Turkish cuisine

Turkish cuisine (Türk mutfağı) is Turkey's culinary tradition, formed from Central Asian meat-and-dairy roots, Anatolian grains, and Mediterranean produce, refined in Seljuk and Ottoman kitchens, with regional variety, sofra table culture, and UNESCO-listed keşkek and Turkish coffee.

Turkish delight

Turkish delight (lokum, from rahat-ül hulküm) is a starch-and-sugar jelly confection from Ottoman cuisine, codified in Turkey with moisture ≤16% and sugar ≥80%, made famous by Hacı Bekir and exported to Europe as Turkish delight.

Turkish folk poetry

Turkish folk poetry (Türk halk şiiri) is poetry in everyday oral Turkish using syllabic meter and quatrains, contrasting with the Persianized Divan tradition and including âşık minstrel verse.

Turkish hip hop

Turkish hip hop is the rap scene of Turkey and its diaspora, born in Germany in the late 1980s and dominant in Turkish charts since 2017.