And what’s with the umlauts? I thought that was a German thing.
The German version is different than the current Turkish version apparently.
The Turks in Ankara want to prohibit the Turks in Germany from making it the way they typically make it in Germany and marketing it as döner kebab.
The EU would like to eliminate American-made Parmesan cheese from the American market, which is partially why the story is amusing.
The story also describes what the Ankara Turks want döner kebab to officially be and the dubious change to beef instead of lamb.
The slicing of the meat is said to date back centuries so some of the meat of a lamb on a spit could be eaten before the whole lamb is cooked.
Its a German transliteration of a Turkish word.
These things were made popular in Germany, because of all the 1960s+ Turkish gastarbeiter.
The Turkish alphabet (written in Latin script since Ataturk) uses the German alphabet as its base.
This is probably related to Wilhelm II’s obsession with Turkey (ref: “The Berlin-Baghdad railway”).
As an aside - it is also interesting that in the 19th century when the Lithuanians tried to create a literary language out of a language that was early just restricted to the peasantry, that they took the Czech alphabet as a way to thumb their nose at the Poles!
Also a Finno-Ugric thing. Finnish and Hungarian, which are related to Turkish, also use umlauts.