… Is that not the name of the country? Every source I can find online seems to indicate that’s the preferred nomenclature now. Or does this have some problematic connotation that google isn’t showing me?
the name of the country in english is “turkey”, insisting on people changing what it’s called in other languages is nationalist propaganda from the Erdoğan government.
It’s like if germany suddenly decided everyone has to call it “Deutschland”, it’s obviously silly and frankly kinda offensive. You only get to make such requests if you’ve suffered colonialism and oppression by other countries, which turkey most certainly has not (they have been the colonizer and oppressor).
I neither know why ordinary people would call it like that, since Turkey is still practically the usual name (more recognisable, easier to write and pronounce), nor why calling it Türkiye anyway would be suspicious.
I just assumed they couldn’t type the u with umlauts but wanted to use the current name; and I just really want to know why that other guy thinks that confers “questionable motives”.
calling it “turkiye” makes me question your motives
… Is that not the name of the country? Every source I can find online seems to indicate that’s the preferred nomenclature now. Or does this have some problematic connotation that google isn’t showing me?
the name of the country in english is “turkey”, insisting on people changing what it’s called in other languages is nationalist propaganda from the Erdoğan government.
It’s like if germany suddenly decided everyone has to call it “Deutschland”, it’s obviously silly and frankly kinda offensive. You only get to make such requests if you’ve suffered colonialism and oppression by other countries, which turkey most certainly has not (they have been the colonizer and oppressor).
It’s actually supposed to be Türkiye, due to Turkey’s request to be called like that in English by international entities: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61671913
I neither know why ordinary people would call it like that, since Turkey is still practically the usual name (more recognisable, easier to write and pronounce), nor why calling it Türkiye anyway would be suspicious.
I just assumed they couldn’t type the u with umlauts but wanted to use the current name; and I just really want to know why that other guy thinks that confers “questionable motives”.
Tbh, that kinda does make more sense… still a weird complaint though.
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