Posted on 01/09/2022 8:02:43 AM PST by Cronos
The Middle Eastern country officially changed its name in December to Türkiye (when the English spelling is used). The decision was made to better reflect the culture and traditions of the country.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a circular in early December making the change to preserve the values that come from the deep-rooted history of the Turkish nation.
“The phrase Türkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish nation in the best way,” the circular says. “In this context, the phrase ‘Made in Türkiye’ is now being used instead of ‘Made in Turkey’ on our export products, which are the pride of our country in international trade.”
The nation’s tourism group has already rebranded its website as goturkiye.com.
The circular said the change reflects thousands of years of experience. The English word means land of the Turks, and the phrase Türkiye dates back to the 14th century.
“Another valuable step has been taken to strengthen the Turkish brand,” the country’s director of communications, Fahrettin Altun, said of the name change.
The move is not a surprise since the Turkish Exporters Assembly began using Made in Türkiye on its labels starting in January 2020.
There may be another reason for the change. As TRT World points out, English searches for information about “Turkey” bring a plethora of results not associated with the country.
“Type ‘Turkey’ into Google, and you will get a muddled set of images, articles, and dictionary definitions that conflate the country with Meleagris — otherwise known as the turkey, a large bird native to North America — which is famous for being served on Christmas menus or Thanksgiving dinners,”
Looking it up in the dictionary, turkey will also get results that include “a stupid or silly person” or “something that fails badly.”
While not a common practice, name changes by countries are not as rare as imagined.
Most recently, the Netherlands dropped Holland as an alternate name in 2019. In 2018 Macedonia became North Macedonia, and in 2016 the Czech Republic announced a change to Czechia.
“…turkey will also get results that include “a stupid or silly person” or “something that fails badly.”
This is a perfect description of Erdogan and what he is doing to Turkey’s economy.
Fine. I’ll call it ‘Türkiye’, if YOU, Mr. mohamedan Erdoğan, refer to ‘Canada’ as PRC (Politically Repressive Canada), or Kanadahar, or Kanada, at least until (unless) a true CONSERVATIVE comes to power. True-dolt is a communist, would be dictator and Kanadaharians seem to lean further and further to the left! We are so screwed!
“As God as my witness, I thought Türkiye’s could fly.”
Why that’s nobody’s business but the Turks.
Something John Madden came up with?
Ok, what do we now call Madden’s Turducken.
And i think all y’all are showing off with that umlaut.
Hey Erdogan,
Eat pooh and die, Punk.
Türkiye appears on all their postage stamps.
Then why don’t we call Germany “Deutschland”?
“Turdland”?
I believe it is an ‘elephant-chicken’ in Persian.
Since I speak English, I’d still refer to it as Turkey for sorta the same reason I say “Germany” instead of “Deustscland”.
And a Guten Morgen to you, Fräulein Ingeborg.
It is not "frow line."
It is "froy line" with an umlaut.
So tonight, we'll split a schnitzel... and start on the German lessons again.
We should. You must be getting rusty.
We'll just have to work at it twice as hard from now on.
Das ist gut?
Sehr gut.
And the first thing we're gonna do is brush up on the umlaut.
Das ist wunderbar.
My French is rusty from disuse, but I remember that countries have male or female articles associated with them, which effects pronouns, adjectives, etc used when referencing them in writing or in speech.
La France, La Chine... these are feminine.
Le Canada, Le Japon... these are masculine.
And I really, really want some countries to identify as trans, just for the comic joy of the whole thing.
Peking became Beijing
How about non-binary specific countries?
FrancX.
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks?
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