In May 2022, the Turkish government requested the United Nations and other international organizations to use Türkiye officially in English; the UN agreed.
Yeah I’ll stop spelling it Turkey and start calling it Turkiÿe when they officially recognize the Armenian genocide and start being apologetic for the massacres, genocides, and forced displacements they’ve perpetrated against Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, and Assyrians.
Those are all legitimate grievances, I just don’t know why the country’s spelling is the target of retribution. You do you, though, it’s not like Turkiye has replaced Turkey in common usage yet anyway.
It’s because I’m petty as fuck. While I absolutely recognize that nothing I do will have any influence on the Turkish government at all, I like to imagine some Turkish bureaucrat will somehow stumble over my usage and be mildly annoyed.
Again, I recognize that this is petty, ultimately pointless, and probably indicative of just generally unhealthy behavior/decision-making on my part.
Edit - I think it stems from a thought process of “Oh, you want me to spell Turkey differently? Yeah well the Armenians would like you to recognize literal genocide, so fuck you and fuck your spelling.”
If @[email protected] is from an English-speaking country they likely don’t have a keyboard that makes it easy to add the umlaut to the u (if they’re on Windows they’d probably have to press Alt and then type 0252 on the number pad, if their keyboard has a number pad).
Requesting countries use characters that are not part of their language as part of your official name in their language is a failure to understand your target audience. It will end up in weird compromises the vast majority of the time.
Turkey*
Turkiye is 🦃, Turkey is 🇹🇷
Yeah, there’s a rumour going around that it’s to distinguish Turkey country from turkey bird that I’m meeting about
Yeah I’ll stop spelling it Turkey and start calling it Turkiÿe when they officially recognize the Armenian genocide and start being apologetic for the massacres, genocides, and forced displacements they’ve perpetrated against Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, and Assyrians.
Those are all legitimate grievances, I just don’t know why the country’s spelling is the target of retribution. You do you, though, it’s not like Turkiye has replaced Turkey in common usage yet anyway.
It’s because I’m petty as fuck. While I absolutely recognize that nothing I do will have any influence on the Turkish government at all, I like to imagine some Turkish bureaucrat will somehow stumble over my usage and be mildly annoyed.
Again, I recognize that this is petty, ultimately pointless, and probably indicative of just generally unhealthy behavior/decision-making on my part.
Edit - I think it stems from a thought process of “Oh, you want me to spell Turkey differently? Yeah well the Armenians would like you to recognize literal genocide, so fuck you and fuck your spelling.”
*Hayk
Are you an international organisation? :p You can call them whatever you like xD
If you want to follow their request you can’t just drop the ü dots tho, that makes for a weird half-assed compromise
If @[email protected] is from an English-speaking country they likely don’t have a keyboard that makes it easy to add the umlaut to the u (if they’re on Windows they’d probably have to press Alt and then type 0252 on the number pad, if their keyboard has a number pad).
Requesting countries use characters that are not part of their language as part of your official name in their language is a failure to understand your target audience. It will end up in weird compromises the vast majority of the time.
Then just stick with Turkey