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Little is known about the global topology of the Fatou set U(f) for holomorphic endomorphisms $f:ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\to ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, when k >1. Classical theory describes U(f) as the complement in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$ of the support of a dynamically defined closed positive (1,1) current. Given any closed positive (1,1) current S on $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k$, we give a definition of linking number between closed loops in $ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS$ and the current S. It has the property that if lk(γ,S) ≠ 0, then γ represents a non-trivial homology element in $H₁\left(ℂ{\mathbb{P}}^k\setminus suppS\right)$. As an application, we use these linking...