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protist@retrofed.com 10 hours agoIn Türkiye, Turkey was always called Türkiye. They just asked the rest of the world to use the Turkish word.
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Deme@sopuli.xyz 40 minutes 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.
CookieOfFortune@lemmy.world 24 minutes 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.
protist@retrofed.com 36 minutes 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