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What the h__ is a Turkiye?

9 posted on 08/24/2023 5:15:35 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)

Thanksgiving dinner guest of honor...

49 posted on 08/24/2023 7:24:14 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)

Türkiye ‘Turk-land’ is a native Turkish word.

Erdogan decreed that the English name for Turkiye/Turkey should be, in official documents, the same as the Turkish word for Turkiye/Turkey.

Note that
1. It’s a fairly new endonym - dating from 1920 — prior to that, the state was Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye, - the Ottoman state.

2. I don’t particularly care for this political name stunt - it isn’t logical like Iran asking us not to refer to it by one of its provinces (Persia) or the Netherlands asking English speakers the same or Myanmar doing so

70 posted on 08/25/2023 2:30:55 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)

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