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SAY WHAT? Turkey’s president has decided to change the name of his country so as not to be confused with bird of the same name
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the country would no longer be called “Turkey,” as the name was no longer the “best way” to represent the culture and values of the people.
Washington Examiner “Our aim is now to represent our state and nation’s thousand of years of experience in every sector under the ‘Turkiye’ brand,” Erdogan said in the statement.
The Turkish name for the country is “Turkiye,” according to the outlet. This name was taken after independence from Western occupation was earned in 1923. Several names have been used, but Turkey was used and adopted by many.
It was suggested in a Twitter post by a Turkish social media influencer that “Turkey had decided to change the name of their country from Turkey to Turkiye to avoid confusion with the name of the turkey bird of the same name.”
Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun posted a tweet in which he highlighted the name change as “another important step” that will “strengthen the Turkish brand.”
“As part of this, the phrase ‘Made in Turkiye’ instead of ‘Made in Turkey’ began to be used in our export products,” the statement says. “As a result, our products, which are the pride of our country in international trade, are promoted and presented to the rest of the world using the ‘Turkiye’ branding.”
Erdogan released a statement on Dec. 3 announcing that the country would be renamed “Turkiye” instead of Turkey, TRT World News reported.
This reason was also supported and explained by TRT World on Dec. 13. The outlet said that if you search the word “turkey” in the Google search engine, you will receive a multitude of results, including the turkey bird, commonly used for Thanksgiving dinners.
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Hartmutsays
Since Turkey is a traditional Thanksgiving Day’s dish, how about calling it Thanksgivin’ meat plate?
muslims always want to tell the world just how easily confused they are and yet they think they are the best of people in the same breath… Confusing indeed.
What the Ottomans did to their Christian subjects served as a model for the Holocaust. As Adolf Hitler told military commanders just prior to the invasion of Poland, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
In English, the bird was actually named after the country. English speakers used to call similar birds from Africa “turkey fowl” because they used to buy these birds from Turkey, and when European English speakers migrated to North America and encountered the American birds, they took to calling those birds the same name of “turkey fowl” as the African birds, or just simply “turkey” for short.
Other languages have different names for the bird, and in Turkish, the birds are called “hindis” or “Indian birds.” The name Turkiye, the name of the country, simply means “Land of Turks”.
If they could communicate, the bird species would say they are the ones who are now relieved. Erdogan set Turkiye back 100 years. Many Turks have left their native country because of his islamic authoritarian rule and the loss of democracy there.
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush….
Re-naming Turkey can never wash away the blood shed by Muslim Turks on millions of Christians in the Armenian genocide and other genocides.
It cannot remove the barbarism, savagery and inhumanity.
The ☪ Turkish peoples are mixed-race humans of European, especially Slavic, and hairy Central Asian ethnic groups.
It bears repeating that ☪ Turkish Koranimals had invaded Europe as far north as Austria’s Vienna twice (in 1529 and 1683 C.E.) before they were beaten back by pure-blooded European Roman Catholic Christians.
What pains me about White and Whitish Moslems (e.g., ☪ Turks, Syrians, Jordanians, Chechens, Albanians, Kosovars, Circassians, etc.) is the fact that they’re the descendants of hundreds of millions of pure-blooded European Christian female sex slaves enslaved by Koranimals as far north as the French city of Tours and Austria’s capital of Vienna, to say nothing of the tens of millions of pure-blooded European Christian females ⚢ captured from Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia and sexually enslaved by the Barbary Moslem pirates of North Africa.
Hartmut says
Since Turkey is a traditional Thanksgiving Day’s dish, how about calling it Thanksgivin’ meat plate?
Fear The Legion says
The country formally known as Turkey will now be an emoji…….😩…….Al law wills it !!!!!
DVult says
Just wait until they have spent a fortune changing the stationary and business cards, etc then change the name of the bird to Turkiyes also.
Bubba Grump's Nutz says
Turkey: The Country to be named later.
Check your Bingo cards, folks.
Bubba Grump's Nutz says
“Turkey”: “U-Ra-Gay”.
GreekEmpress says
They can call themselves whatever they want, but they’re still squatters.
Free Constantinople and make Turkey Armenia again!
Andrew+Blackadder says
muslims always want to tell the world just how easily confused they are and yet they think they are the best of people in the same breath… Confusing indeed.
mjazzguitar says
What the Ottomans did to their Christian subjects served as a model for the Holocaust. As Adolf Hitler told military commanders just prior to the invasion of Poland, “Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
Steve S says
In English, the bird was actually named after the country. English speakers used to call similar birds from Africa “turkey fowl” because they used to buy these birds from Turkey, and when European English speakers migrated to North America and encountered the American birds, they took to calling those birds the same name of “turkey fowl” as the African birds, or just simply “turkey” for short.
Other languages have different names for the bird, and in Turkish, the birds are called “hindis” or “Indian birds.” The name Turkiye, the name of the country, simply means “Land of Turks”.
Az gal says
It’s still Turkey.
goldenhair says
It’e still Constantinople.
Pray Hard says
Moslems are so stupid.
Me says
Confused?
You will be, in the next episode of Turk -I-Ye …
Coming soon!
Jack Rider says
If they could communicate, the bird species would say they are the ones who are now relieved. Erdogan set Turkiye back 100 years. Many Turks have left their native country because of his islamic authoritarian rule and the loss of democracy there.
MoJac says
May I suggest Vultur(ye)?
Linda Rivera says
Quran (9:5) – “So when the sacred months have passed away, then slay the idolaters wherever you find them, and take them captive and besiege them and lie in wait for them in every ambush….
Re-naming Turkey can never wash away the blood shed by Muslim Turks on millions of Christians in the Armenian genocide and other genocides.
It cannot remove the barbarism, savagery and inhumanity.
Ramez says
The ☪ Turkish peoples are mixed-race humans of European, especially Slavic, and hairy Central Asian ethnic groups.
It bears repeating that ☪ Turkish Koranimals had invaded Europe as far north as Austria’s Vienna twice (in 1529 and 1683 C.E.) before they were beaten back by pure-blooded European Roman Catholic Christians.
What pains me about White and Whitish Moslems (e.g., ☪ Turks, Syrians, Jordanians, Chechens, Albanians, Kosovars, Circassians, etc.) is the fact that they’re the descendants of hundreds of millions of pure-blooded European Christian female sex slaves enslaved by Koranimals as far north as the French city of Tours and Austria’s capital of Vienna, to say nothing of the tens of millions of pure-blooded European Christian females ⚢ captured from Britain, Ireland, and Scandinavia and sexually enslaved by the Barbary Moslem pirates of North Africa.
Linda Rivera says
Yes, Ramez. It’s extremely heartbreaking.