Yes? The country is named Türkiye, we should use that name?
The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.
The etymology here is interesting and has a looooong history. The country has officially been named Türkiye for over a century.
The problem with the turkey rebranding is that it was a mere orthographic update, but it is using orthography that is very non standard(whatever that means for English), including using a diacritic rarely seen in English.
I could get behind it more if they completely changed the name, like a when Swaziland switched to eswatini. But for now, you can pry turkey from my cold dead hands
Big fan of Thanksgiving foods I see.
(Do you see the real problem? Lowercasing a proper noun that has another meaning when lowercased. Turkey/Türkiye is just the cherry on top)
So here's your why: because they asked you to and you are better at it than they are. If you need smug superiority, you could use that too, I guess.
People change their names and nick names all the time. I don't go and check every value of theirs before I use their new name. It's really not that complicated.
Frankly I dispute that Türkiye can be the English name given it contains a non-English letter.
We can choose not to do it, I guess, but place names change all the time. Istanbul vs Constantinople. New York vs New Amsterdam. Myanmar vs Burma. Czechia vs Czech Republic. Swaziland vs Eswatini.
It's "Eswatini" with a capital letter and no, it's not a complete change. In both cases the word means the place of the Swazi/Swati people. If you're not aware that Southern African languages use prefixes such as "e-" as well as suffixes (like e.g. the suffix "-land" in English) then I guess it's harder to recognise the word stem. But they are related terms, not a "complete change".
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I don't think we are required to start calling it Turkey in the vernacular. Regular Turkish people don't have to change their names for countries in their language either. I only pointed out Turkey/Türkiye in my original post to head off smart-asses. Using proper casing for the name is much more important.