Turkey to Türkiye Name Change

The cluster centers on discussions about Turkey's official request to use 'Türkiye' instead of 'Turkey' in English, including jokes confusing it with the bird, opinions on compliance, and links to Wikipedia and news sources.

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Sample Comments

omilu Feb 10, 2014 View on HN

the country is named turkey for a reason

InCityDreams Jul 13, 2022 View on HN

"Turkey -> Türkiye", doth not the problem solve.

malandrew Feb 6, 2023 View on HN

Oh, didn’t realize that was Turkish.

gkya Jul 19, 2016 View on HN

"us" means Turkey in my comment, was unclear sorry.

fguerraz Jun 17, 2022 View on HN

It's Türkiye by the way :rolleyes:

vipa123 Jun 17, 2021 View on HN

It's Turks all the way down

ahmetalpbalkan Aug 8, 2011 View on HN

wow some Turkish stuff on HN. nice to see.

behnamoh Oct 3, 2022 View on HN

It's interesting to see even a Turkish person still writes "Turkey" and not "Türkiye".

coderdd Jun 2, 2022 View on HN

A turn-key solution to avoid confusing turkey and Türkiye.

n_plus_1_acc Mar 27, 2025 View on HN

Probably referring to the "turkish i problem"