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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by jordigh on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @12:19PM (#34711313)
Erdogan wants English to use the Turkish spelling because he's tired of English speakers thinking of the bird when they're talking about the country.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MyNaymeIs

The funny thing is that through a bunch of funny historical accidents, the bird is literally named after the country, so we could just spell the birds türkiyes too.

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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by GauntletWizard on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @05:40PM (#34716596)
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Re:Turkey blocks Twitter after the earthquake by sillytr on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @06:12PM (#34717004)
Why not be more explicit?

Turks call India "Hindi-stan". Which in Turkish is "Turkey-the-bird-stan". Including the Persian etymology would literally make it "Land of the Turkeys." If Modi wanted to pick a fight with Turkey it would have made for an entertaining UN session.

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