Türkiye in Turkish contains sounds that can’t be pronounced in English, and does not sound much like “Turkia”. The closest English approximate pronunciation (wh

Türkiye in Turkish contains sounds that can’t be pronounced in English, and does not sound much like “Turkia”. The closest English approximate pronunciation (which is what you hear in that video) does sound pretty close to Turkia, though. > I don't get why they went with such complicated letter sequence for such a straightforward word. The spelling wasn’t invented recently, it’s just the standard word for Turkey in the Turkish language.