Turkey: Brics instead of EU?
Turkey: Brics instead of EU?
Turkey wants to join the Brics economic community, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said during his visit to China last week - the first by a high-ranking Turkish politician in 12 years.
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Turkiye is the proper name btw. They formally requested people start using their name correctly.
Eh, lots of countries have different names in other languages. In English, we call it "Germany," not Deutschland. In Spanish, it's "Los Estados Unidos," not the United States. In English it's "Wales," but in Welsh it's Cymru. Just 3 of hundreds of examples
They asked for being written Turkiye especially in English. In Deutschland we can go on calling their country Türkei because out turkey is called Truthahn.
I have no opinion on this, but maybe it just takes more time. I don't hear anyone calling Chinas capital 'Peking' anymore, only Bejing, but that didn't happen instantly either.
I do. That's the correct name/spelling in Swedish.
Sorry, I didn't make that clear, I meant in Germany, as the commenter talked about the German translation of turkey.
They did or Erdogan did?
Because this reeks of useless nationalism.
Apparently the spelling is closer to the pronunciation and is older than the English spelling.
That doesn't answer the question asked, however.
In the wiki article. The request was formally don'e by the government of Turkiye to the UN. It was accepted as a formal name change. And yes, Erdogan is their president. Im also not a fan of him, but calling a country by their name should not be contentious, or should it?