Torkils (also Torks, Cyrillic: торки) were a Turkic tribe of the Middle Ages, possibly of Kipchak or Oghuz origin. The Torkil were one of the tribes who formed the Chornye Klobuki ("Black Hats", Turkic "Karakalpak"), semi-nomadic tribes who fought as border guards for various princes of Kievan Rus.
In 1177 a Cuman army, allied with Ryazan, sacked six cities belonging to the Berendei and Torkil.
In Ukraine, many placenames trace to Torks, such as Torchesk, Torchyn, rivers Torets and Torch, Torsky way along the river Tetilha, villages Torets, Torky, Toretske.
Torkil may refer to:
My mind between day and night
Good and evil like two sides
Of a coin made of madness
Sometimes dark sometimes bright
Innocence and guilt
Only shades of game I cannot win
Lust and despise
Only pattern no one to blame
My mind as gloom as a cave
As dark as a grave
Strength and weakness
Only schemes not to care,
Killed myself
Long time ago
No one for the guilt
To share
The End of the game
Now it is quite near
I confess the guilt
I', afraid I cannot bear
Death the only border
Left to cross to escape my fate
How many slaughter will there pave