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Am I supposed to tell people I'm from Türkiye from now on? Will be fun explaining to them it's not a silly joke, but the new official name of the country. Altho
by afroisalreadyin 4y ago
Am I supposed to tell people I'm from Türkiye from now on? Will be fun explaining to them it's not a silly joke, but the new official name of the country. Although you know what, it might lead to some good party banter.
- Freak_NL 4y agoYou're not supposed to do anything (well, strictly speaking, I guess that depends on the whim of your autocratic government), because language is use. You can call it Turkey if that works for you (and most will for a long time). Depending on the context you can choose to be correct (or pedantic), or just casual. If you are talking to some tourists who struggle with English, you would use 'Turkey' to avoid making the communication harder than it needs to be; if you are in charge of making those neat desktop country name signs at a diplomatic meating though… In five years time it may well be accepted to write 'Türkiye' in a table of countries with some values in some paper or article, or may be not. Such are the vagueries of applied language.
- afroisalreadyin 4y agoJust kidding, I'm not changing the way I call the country, only maybe as a joke. What the Erdogan foreign ministry is doing is a silly diversion from the general shitshow, not even Turks themselves (or a large majority of them) take this seriously.