Daydream Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara. "Türkiye is the best representation and expression of the Turkish people's culture, civilization, and values," Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in December. The UN says it made the change as soon as it received the request this week. Most Turks already know their country as Türkiye. However the anglicised form Turkey is widely used, even within the country. The reasons for the image rebrand was the association with the bird traditionally associated with Christmas, New Year or Thanksgiving. [Also] the Cambridge English Dictionary's definition of one of the meanings of the word as "something that fails badly" or "a stupid or silly person". As part of the re-branding, "Made in Türkiye" will feature on all exported products. We have to wait and see if people around the world will accept Türkiye instead of Turkey, Turquie or Twrci. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61671913 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virgos Groove Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Makes sense tbh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pendulum Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 but we need Germany to rebrand itself as Deutschland in English too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schami66 Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Yeah, we love that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negev Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 How is it pronounced? the same as Turkey? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 waiting for deutschland, hellas, hrvatska ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Sexy Savage Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Waiting for the two Koreas to be one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayseri Mantisi Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Hopefully an another change is coming next year, we all hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Parker Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 14 minutes ago, Sweet Sexy Savage said: Waiting for the two Koreas to be one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikachoo Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 but isn't that how you say the name of the country in English? Like Zhonggua is China in English. That's just how it's said in English. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arceus Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Maybe they need to worry about their Lira which is tanking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illia Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Türkiye looks cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KillingYourCareer Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 50 minutes ago, Negev said: How is it pronounced? the same as Turkey? More or less like Turkey-yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frozen99 Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 50 minutes ago, Sweet Sexy Savage said: Waiting for the two Koreas to be one nnnn; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
byzantium Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 So basically they are just changing the spelling from Turkey to Turkiye? That is different than Germany being called Deutschland or Japan being called Nippon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jqnetto Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 is ü an actual letter in english alphabet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrorblade Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BtDecember Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Philippines next! Jkjk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadonnasBoyfriend Posted June 2, 2022 Share Posted June 2, 2022 Towels imported from Türkiye. Turkey imported from Maine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodflowers. Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Turkey will always be iconic name, stop erasing ha history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZIVERT Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 I will respect the wishes of the Turkish people and refer to their country as such! Now let's get more countries to recognize KYIV instead of Kiev too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flower moon Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 lol you cannot dictate what words other languages use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icarus Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 The GP wanted Istanbul to return to Constantinople Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Protocol Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 It’s not going to happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@michael Posted June 5, 2022 Share Posted June 5, 2022 People will probably still use Turkey out of habit. Czech Republic changing to Czechia never really caught on either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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