Turtuk is a village and the headquarters of an eponymous community development block in the Indian union territory of Ladakh.

[12] It is the largest of the villages and has a claim to being the historical capital of the southern Chorbat section of the Shyok Valley.

They killed the king and eventually mostly of the locals fled Turtuk along the stream and across the mountain, to the villages now called Hanu, Dah and Domkhar.

[citation needed] As time passed on, people from outside came to Turtuk in search of work, bringing in more diversity.

Turtuk is believed to have remained an independent principality till the conquest of Baltistan by the Sikh Empire.

Islam came to Turtuk due to the famous Persian Sufi poet and preacher, Syed Ali Shah Hamdani.

[14][verification needed] The thousand-year Yabgo rule continued until 1834, when Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu, a vassal of the Sikh Empire, conquered the region.

India's Ladakh Scouts and Nubra Guards, under the command of Brigadier Udai Singh, entered the village after Pakistani forces had retreated a day earlier.

[citation needed] The local people are unsure of their loyalties because they have lived under both Pakistani and Indian control, and some of them served in the Pakistan Army before India's take-over.

Turtuk is one of the few places in India where one can witness Balti culture, and one can find a few homestays and guest houses in the village.