The Turks (タークス) is the unofficial nickname of the Investigation Sector of the General Affairs Department of the Shin-Ra Electric Power Company, under the direct command of Shin-Ra's Head of Peacekeeping, Heidegger. The Turks perform black ops on behalf of the corporation, including kidnappings and assassinations. The Turks function as recurring villains throughout the game, although they are not beyond temporary alliances with AVALANCHE, the game's protagonists. The spin-off game Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII focuses exclusively on the Turks in the years leading up to Final Fantasy VII.
They also appear in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children, which occurs two years after the first video game. Due to the fact that the Shin-Ra empire has collapsed, they are technically no longer Turks, although they continue to wear their Turk uniforms (of note, however, is that the original navy blue colour of their uniforms in the game has been changed to black in Advent Children) and work for their boss, former company president Rufus Shinra. They primarily serve as body guards, but they also aid Rufus in his mission to repay Shin-Ra's debt for "putting the world into its current, pathetic state" - with the ultimate goal of rebuilding the wounded conglomerate.
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Main members
Template:Spoilers At the time of Final Fantasy VII, the Turks are comprised of the following individuals:
Tseng
The stern, temperamental, long black-haired leader of the Turks. Injured by Sephiroth in the Temple of the Ancients, he was unseen for the rest of Final Fantasy VII. However, he appears in the movie Advent Children together with Elena, saving Rufus after he threw Jenova's head off a building and subsequently followed it. He was apparantly tortured by Kadaj earlier in the film, but was eventually rescued by Vincent Valentine.
Reno
Cocky, cynical and somewhat lazy, he has a long red ponytail. Reno serves as an antagonist throughout Final Fantasy 7. He fights using an electo-magnetic rod, and is usually seen alongside Rude.
Rude
Rude (ルード) is a tall, bald man with a little goatee, and is rarely seen without Reno.
Elena
A young woman with short, blonde hair and brown eyes, she is naive, impetuous and somewhat overeager.
Former Turks
- Veld is the previous leader of the Turks. He has no patience with failure from his subordinates. Most of the Turks are terrified of Veld's severity; Tseng, however, considers him a role model and eventually succeeds him. Veld appears only in Before Crisis.
- Vincent Valentine served as a gunman in the Turks, thirty years prior to the start of Final Fantasy VII. While on a mission in Nibelheim during the later stages of the Jenova Project, Vincent was shot by Hojo, who then used him for experimental purposes, turning him into the man seen in Final Fantasy VII and its subsequent sequels. The experiment Professor Hojo performed on Vincent altered his body in many ways, one of the most notable is he does not age. Thirty years after the experiment his features remains the same, although he has lived for 57 years.
- The main characters of Before Crisis were all Turks at one point. The player chooses from eight unnamed characters, four young men and four young women, each with his or her own back story, personality, strengths, and weaknesses. Six of these Turks also appear in the animated short Last Order: Final Fantasy VII, where they act as support for Tseng, Reno, and Rude, but none are named on screen and few of them have dialogue. What happened to these characters after Before Crisis and Last Order is not known.
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