Sure but I still don't get why they did that. Germans aren't going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There's so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.
That's not so hard to remember! In France, turkey is called "dinde," derived from "d'Inde" ("of India"), which is much farther east than Türkiye. So just remember that in France, Türkiye = India.
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How am I meant to know which colour means Türkiye and which means not Türkiye
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in reply to Deme • • • Public MessageNames evolve over time for a variety of reasons. The examples you provide aren’t also used as an insult the way turkey (the bird) is.
Recently there’s also Czechia, Eswantini, North Macedonia.
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mfa.gov.tr/default.en.mfa
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in reply to SubArcticTundra • • • Public Messageit’s clearly marked as not türkiye
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"Huh. So Japan ISN'T Turkiye? TIL, I guess."
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Oh, since 1960. In that case I'll re phrase it:
The Republic of Cyprus will be pleased.
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in reply to kate • • • Public MessageTo be fair, wikipedia does this too and I find it helpful. The problem is the color scheme
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
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