tekke
Noun
Meaning
tekke (plural tekkes)
In Turkey, a dervish or Sufi lodge or place of worship.
Examples
The same hatred is extended to the Tekke Turkomans, whom the Goklans and Yamuds, moreover, look upon as their inferiors, being, according to their genealogies, the descendants of a slave-woman, whilst they are the posterity of a free-woman.
During the 1830s, the Tekke Turkomans, then living on the Tejen River, were forced by the Persians to migrate northward.