General articles: Arts and culture

Turkish makam

Turkish makam (makam, makamlar), the melodic-modal system of Ottoman-Turkish classical music: 53-tone Holdrian comma theory, seyir melodic progression, Arel-Ezgi-Uzdilek codification, and core makams such as Rast, Hicaz, and Segâh.

Turkish novel

The Turkish novel is the tradition of extended fictional prose in Turkish, which emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the mid-nineteenth century and became a leading modern genre.

Turkish playwrights

Turkish playwrights are writers of staged drama in the Turkish language, a tradition beginning with İbrahim Şinasi's 1859 Şair Evlenmesi and continuing through republican playwrights who built a national repertoire.

Turkish science fiction

Turkish science fiction, known in Turkish as bilimkurgu, is the body of science fiction literature, film, and television produced in Turkish, expanding sharply after 2000.

Turkish short story

The Turkish short story, called hikâye or öykü, is a prose narrative genre in Turkish literature that became an independent genre in the early twentieth century.

Turkish State Theatres

Turkish State Theatres (Devlet Tiyatroları) is Turkey's national state theater institution, founded by law in 1949, now running 64 stages and drawing over 2 million spectators a year.

Turkish television drama

Turkish television drama (dizi) is serialized Turkish TV fiction exported to over 150 countries since the late 1990s; the world's second- or third-ranked TV exporter with $1 billion in exports, driven by long episodes, family melodrama, and soft power.

Turkish women's literature

Turkish women's literature is writing in Turkish by women, spanning Ottoman divan poets, the first female novelists such as Fatma Aliye (1862–1936), and writers like Halide Edib to the present.

Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği

Türkiye Yazarlar Birliği (TYB, Writers Union of Turkey) is a Turkish writers' association founded in Ankara in 1978, known for its annual Writer, Thinker and Artists of the Year awards.

Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası

Türkiye Yazarlar Sendikası (TYS), the Writers' Union of Turkey, is a Turkish trade union of writers founded in Istanbul in 1974, with Yaşar Kemal as its first president.

Turkmen carpet

A Turkmen carpet is a hand-knotted pile carpet woven by the Turkmen tribes of Central Asia, with rows of tribal guls on a red field, inscribed by UNESCO in 2019.

Turkmen literature

Turkmen literature (Türkmen edebiýaty) is the oral and written literature in the Turkmen language, rooted in folk epics and classical poetry led by the 18th-century poet Magtymguly Pyragy.

Turks & Caicos (film)

Turks & Caicos (2014) is David Hare's second Worricker trilogy TV film, a BBC Two spy thriller starring Bill Nighy as exiled MI5 agent Johnny Worricker, with Christopher Walken, Winona Ryder, and Ralph Fiennes.

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Turma do Pagode

Turma do Pagode is an eight-member pagode group from the Zona Norte of São Paulo, formed in 1994 and known for the hits "Lancinho" and "Camisa 10".

Turn A Gundam (ターンAガンダム)

Turn A Gundam (∀ガンダム) is Sunrise's 50-episode 1999–2000 Gundam 20th-anniversary TV anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino, with Syd Mead mecha designs, following Moonrace scout Loran Cehack and the Moonlight Butterfly.

Turn Blue (album)

Turn Blue is the Black Keys' eighth studio album, released May 13, 2014 on Nonesuch. Produced by Danger Mouse with Auerbach and Carney, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.

Turn Down for What

Turn Down for What is a 2013 Columbia single by DJ Snake and Lil Jon, a trap-dubstep party track. UK peak 23, 61 weeks on the Dance chart; ISRC USUM70731278, ISWC T-914019054-1; Daniels-directed video.

Turn Left, Turn Right (向左走·向右走)

Turn Left, Turn Right (向左走·向右走) is a 2003 Hong Kong romantic comedy by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai, adapted from Jimmy Liao's illustrated book, starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Gigi Leung as neighbors who keep missing each other in Taipei; Warner Bros.' first Mandarin co-production.

Turn of the Tide

Turn of the Tide (Rabo de Peixe) is a Portuguese Netflix crime drama created by Augusto Fraga, inspired by a 2001 cocaine shipment that washed ashore in the Azores; three seasons, 2023–2026, 19 episodes.

Turn the Lights Back On

Turn the Lights Back On: Billy Joel single released February 1, 2024 by Columbia Records, written with Freddy Wexler, Arthur Bacon, and Wayne Hector; his first new pop song since 2007's All My Life, debuted at No. 62 on the Hot 100.

Turn Up Charlie

Turn Up Charlie is a 2019 British Netflix comedy-drama, also called a manny comedy, created by Idris Elba and Gary Reich: a washed-up DJ nannies his friend's daughter; eight episodes, cancelled April 2020.

Turn: Washington's Spies

Turn: Washington's Spies is an AMC historical drama (2014–2017, four 10-episode seasons) created by Craig Silverstein from Alexander Rose's book about the Culper Ring, starring Jamie Bell as Abraham Woodhull; praised by audiences, criticized by historians for inaccuracy.

Turn! Turn! Turn!

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season) is a Pete Seeger folk song from Ecclesiastes 3, first recorded in 1962 and made a 1965 Billboard number one by the Byrds.

Turner & Hooch

Turner & Hooch is a 1989 American buddy-cop comedy starring Tom Hanks as a neat-freak detective partnered with a slobbery dog who is his only murder witness.

Turner & Hooch (TV series)

Turner & Hooch (TV series): 2021 Disney+ comedy sequel to the 1989 Tom Hanks film, starring Josh Peck as Scott Turner Jr. with a French Mastiff; 12 episodes, canceled after one season.

Turner Prize

Turner Prize, annual British contemporary art award founded in 1984 by Tate's Patrons of New Art and named for J. M. W. Turner; given for an outstanding exhibition by an artist born or working in Britain, with a four-artist shortlist, £25,000 winner's purse, and a history of controversy.

Turning Gate

Turning Gate (생활의 발견, Saenghwal-ui balgyeon), also On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate, is Hong Sang-soo's 2002 South Korean drama about an actor's two mirrored love affairs in Chuncheon and Gyeongju, his fourth feature and Korean commercial peak.

Turning Japanese

"Turning Japanese" is a 1980 new wave single by the English band the Vapors, written by David Fenton. It reached number 3 in the UK, number 1 in Australia, and number 36 in the US, and is famous for a masturbation rumor the band denies.

Turning Mecard (터닝메카드)

Turning Mecard (터닝메카드) is a Korean transforming robot toy line and KBS animated series by Choirock Contents Company, distributed by Sonokong. Cars transform via popup cards; 25,198,404 toys sold 2015–2017, a KRI-certified record.