• RubberDuck
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    -151 year ago

    Turkiye is the proper name btw. They formally requested people start using their name correctly.

    • @protist@mander.xyz
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      111 year ago

      Eh, lots of countries have different names in other languages. In English, we call it “Germany,” not Deutschland. In Spanish, it’s “Los Estados Unidos,” not the United States. In English it’s “Wales,” but in Welsh it’s Cymru. Just 3 of hundreds of examples

      • @brainrein@feddit.de
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        -51 year ago

        They asked for being written Turkiye especially in English. In Deutschland we can go on calling their country Türkei because out turkey is called Truthahn.

        • Mkengine
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          11 year ago

          I have no opinion on this, but maybe it just takes more time. I don’t hear anyone calling Chinas capital ‘Peking’ anymore, only Bejing, but that didn’t happen instantly either.

            • Mkengine
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              01 year ago

              Sorry, I didn’t make that clear, I meant in Germany, as the commenter talked about the German translation of turkey.