No, Turkish Draughts is not the same as checkers, although both are draughts games played on an 8x8 board. The key difference is movement: in checkers, pieces move and capture diagonally on the dark squares, while in Turkish Draughts men move straight forward and sideways using every square. Turkish men cannot capture backward, but a promoted king flies any distance along straight lines rather than the short diagonal steps of a checkers king. Both games share the ideas of forced captures and promotion, yet the straight-line movement and powerful flying king make Turkish Draughts play very differently from ordinary checkers.