Yes, though they are certainly not very good at it, generally speaking, for they simply were not built for the task. In belt drive turntables the platter is turned by - yes, you guessed it! - a belt drive. This belt drive, if tampered with, will take an amount of time to get back up to speed. No matter how responsive it might be, there is always going to be a lag between the manipulation and the disc getting back to the original speed at which it was playing. Thus, fluid and elegant scratches by a disc jockey will be quickly lost to the downfalls of the belt drive turntable.