Maybe irrelevant but who the fuck decided that Turkey is to be called Turkiye now?
If you’re speaking English it’s fucking Turkey. Otherwise better start calling Germany Deutschland, Finland Suomi, Greece Ellada and so on.
Thanks for the downvote :)
But on point, it’s not the same, is it? Turkiye is just Turkey in the Turkish language, it’s not a change of the country’s name like going from Burma to Myanmar.
It’s more like saying Deutschland instead of Germany.
In fact for that one there’s a bit of a history, the view being that Myanmar was more inclusive as opposed to Burma which relates to the Bamar ethnic group. And it was the UK that primary opposed the change from the colonial era name, which brings us again to the issue of colonialism and the fact that the English think they can tell the world what to do because they control the narrative on the internet.
Maybe irrelevant but who the fuck decided that Turkey is to be called Turkiye now? If you’re speaking English it’s fucking Turkey. Otherwise better start calling Germany Deutschland, Finland Suomi, Greece Ellada and so on.
I honestly think that should be the default.
Agreed, but for some weird reason the fact that Turkey is the only one where somehow everyone suddenly abides by their whim pisses me off.
I’m pretty sure “everyone” did it for Myanmar as well. And in Germany we changed from Weißrussland to Belarus.
Thanks for the downvote :) But on point, it’s not the same, is it? Turkiye is just Turkey in the Turkish language, it’s not a change of the country’s name like going from Burma to Myanmar. It’s more like saying Deutschland instead of Germany. In fact for that one there’s a bit of a history, the view being that Myanmar was more inclusive as opposed to Burma which relates to the Bamar ethnic group. And it was the UK that primary opposed the change from the colonial era name, which brings us again to the issue of colonialism and the fact that the English think they can tell the world what to do because they control the narrative on the internet.