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Why does Turkey want other countries to start spelling its name 'Türkiye'?

  • Written by Phillip M. Carter, Associate Professor of Linguistics, Florida International University
Why does Turkey want other countries to start spelling its name 'Türkiye'?Turks have called their country Türkiye since 1923.Chris McGrath/Getty Images

Is Turkey’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story?

In June 2022, the United Nations agreed to change the spelling of the country known in the English-speaking world as Turkey to Türkiye, heeding a...

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