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Listening to a news broadcast recently, I noticed the country Turkey is now called Turkiya
This didn't seem to be part of a broader trend of using non-anglicised forms (the same news report referred to Sweden and Germany, not Sverige and Deutschland). Why Turkiya, why now?
The leadership of Turkey specifically requested a name change in a bunch of international organizations, UN, Olympics, Council of Europe...
UK government has a helpful list of changes to how it calls certain countries
These changes can be confusing, I confess that I still have to catch myself when I start saying "Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya" rather than the newfangled "Libya."
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