Trying to get the English name for the country to include a letter that does not exist in English is just the kind of trolling we've grown to expect.
I'm curious how people pronounce this when they've never heard it. Do people assume the 'e' is silent as in "eye". For anyone curious it's basically "Turkey-yeah" & the "yeah" is short.
How about Turkey-Ye with Ye as in Kanye. I think the vowel sound would be closer.
Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso instilled their current names as the only acceptable names for a long time. Pretty successfully though.
Terrible decision. Upper Volta was the coolest country name on Earth. Who wouldn't tremble before the Upper Voltaic Ambassador?
Sankara was pretty big on breaking with western influences and going back to local culture. The Upper Voltaic Ambassador title was an unfortunate victim of that
I wonder if there was a current that offered some resistance to it but was overpowered