The frustration is quite understandable: In some messenger services, when you enter the international name of Turkey, namely Turkey, not the country's flag appears, but a turkey. Makes sense, since turkey is the English word for turkey.
But now it's over: Turkey becomes Turkiye.

From now on Turkiye instead of Turkey

As Anadolu Agency reports, the UN will register “Türkiye” as Turkey’s new country name. The international body says it received a letter from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu regarding the name change.

UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric received the letter on Tuesday and said the country's name change took effect upon receipt of the letter. At the end of 2021, this name change began with Turkey labeling products from its country “Made in Turkiye”.

According to Erdogan, the new name best expresses the culture, civilization and values ​​of the Turkish nation. Cambridge Dictionary, “turkey” is not only a North American bird, but also a stupid person or something that went horribly wrong.

How is Turkiye pronounced?

There was probably also anger at the fact that even within Turkey, their own country was often called Turkey instead of Turkiye (or Türkiye), but that has to be stopped. But how is the new name pronounced? With an ü or u? Long i or short?

So that there are no problems internationally, Turkey started a campaign for the new international name in January 2022:

Why is turkey even called “Turkey”?

The English name of Türkiye (from medieval Latin Turchia/Turquia) means “land of the Turks”. But why is a North American bird also called a Turkey? This is due to a confusion between two similar-looking bird species.

There is an African bird called the guinea fowl . It has dark plumage with white spots and a brown spot on the neck. Portuguese merchants brought the guinea fowl to Europe via North Africa.

This foreign bird came to Europe via Turkish lands. Therefore, the English considered the guinea fowl to be a “turkey cock”. When Europeans came to North America, they saw a bird that looked like a guinea fowl and called it "American turkey" - and in the end the only name left was "Turkey".

Fun fact: In Turkish, turkey is called “hindi,” the Turkish name for India, which probably comes from the old, false idea that the New World was in East Asia. And in Hindu the turkey is called “tarki”, which again brings us full circle to Turkey.

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