Yurukn.adj.

1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. i. 13 In one of these glades we found a tribe of Yuruk with their flocks.

1896 D. G. Hogarth Wandering Scholar in Levant iii. 53 The ‘Turk’, most rightly so called, is the despised Yuruk, the ‘wanderer’, a name applied to the half-settled population, roaming in summer.., collected in the winter into villages.

1907 G. Bell Let. 1 May (1927) I. xi. 233 So we rode back along the beautiful grassy shores of the lake, where the Yuruks were watching their flocks and herds.

1959 Listener 6 Aug. 221/1 Three weeks among the Yuruks.

1963 Times 9 May 14/6 The Yürüks are a tribe of nomads who spend their winter in the equable south of Anatolia and move up to the plateaux and highlands for the summer.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 848/2 Yü rük rugs, handwoven by nomadic people in various parts of Anatolia... Rugs from Eastern Anatolia, many of them Kurdish rugs..but classed as Yürük, show a wide range of rich and unusual colour shades.

1983 J. Thompson Carpet Magic 19/2 (caption) One member of a Turkish nomad, or Yuruk, family on migration.