Comment on found this helpful map of which countries are turkiye on turkiye's government website

HailHydra@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the blue part must be the ocean, since water is blue. Perhaps the white is Türkiye!

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• idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If they never changed the name from Turkey we wouldn’t have this conundrum

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  • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    In Türkiye, Turkey was always called Türkiye. They just asked the rest of the world to use the Turkish word.

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    • Deme@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure but I still don’t get why they did that. Germans aren’t going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There’s so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.

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      • protist@retrofed.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I mean, they just asked the UN to use that name. No one is required to use it, and I don’t recall it really being a fit

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      • CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Names evolve over time for a variety of reasons. The examples you provide aren’t also used as an insult the way turkey (the bird) is.

        Recently there’s also Czechia, Eswantini, North Macedonia.

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      • csolisr@hub.azkware.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I'm of the opinion that at least the UN should use the native words for all countries so everyone is properly accounted for

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    • MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Woosh

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• captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Türkiye’s flag is red and white so I’m pretty sure it’s either the red or the white

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  here you go 🗝️

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