Turkey wants to join the Brics economic community, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during his visit to China last week - the first by a high-ranking Turkish politician in 12 years.
  • Tar_AlcaranEnglish
    22•11 months ago

    As someone in the EU, can you take Hungary with you when you leave?

  • BombOmOmEnglish
    9•11 months ago

    Turkey is being their contrarian self, yet again.

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkinEnglish
    3•11 months ago

    China is planning to circumvent the Bosphorous straight, I’m surprised Turkey doesn’t respond to such a suggestion with a stream of umlauted profanities capable of even making an average HBO drama blush!

  • RubberDuckEnglish
    -15•11 months ago

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

    • @protist@mander.xyzEnglish
      11•11 months 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.deEnglish
        -5•11 months 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.

        • MkengineEnglish
          1•11 months 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.

            • MkengineEnglish
              0•11 months ago

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