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

• 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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      • Natanael@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        A fair few doesn’t have a good pronunciation in other languages that those native speakers can reliably understand. That’s why we have localizations in the first place. Here in Sweden, Turkey (Turkiet) doesn’t sound like the bird (kalkon). It makes more sense to show the localized name and their internal name next to each other, and this is already common in many maps.

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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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