Upvoting just for acknowledging the new spelling
It isnt even the new spelling. The new spelling has that weird “u” with the dots. Only Turkey would decide a new international name using characters that arent default. They could have gone with Turkia(like Czechia) or even Turkiye, but no, they had to be assholes for no reason so they can complain when people misspell their name. Victim mentality minmaxing.
Not to mention that the reason for the change is beyond silly(because the old name sounds like the bird). But at least thats their prerogative.
ü - the dots are called an umlaut 😊
Did they change the spelling because of the English word for the bird?
From wikipedia
The reason given in the circular for preferring Türkiye was that it “represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in the best way”. According to Turkish state broadcaster TRT, it was also to avoid a pejorative association with the bird of the same name.
In any case, there is 0 reason not to use latin characters for your international(english) name. I dont think there is any other country that does that.
Makes me wonder how big the mountain was before it all eroded over the structures
The before picture is much much closer than then tm second picture.
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