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Helsinkian
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« on: February 16, 2022, 11:48:25 AM »

"The association with the bird genuinely annoys Erdogan".

BBC:




No news yet on whether the Turks will reciprocate by calling Germany "Deutschland", Greece "Ελλάδα" or China "中国".
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Helsinkian
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« Reply #1 on: February 16, 2022, 12:42:52 PM »

lol, not a chance

That'll go about as well as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' similar effort.

Although Swaziland -> Eswatini has gained ground so much that Wikipedia now uses the latter as the primary name.
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« Reply #2 on: February 16, 2022, 12:52:02 PM »
« Edited: February 16, 2022, 12:59:18 PM by Helsinkian »

"The association with the bird genuinely annoys Erdogan".

BBC:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkiokGKBHCc

No news yet on whether the Turks will reciprocate by calling Germany "Deutschland", Greece "Ελλάδα" or China "中国".

Why don't you respect how anybody want to be called? What's the problem with Türkiye or more likely Turkiye?

Again, would you call Germany "Deutschland", Greece "Ελλάδα" or China "中国" instead of the name in your language if those countries asked for it?

And Belarus is "Valko-Venäjä" in Finnish because the letter B is alien to the Finnish language. Plenty of people are already mispronouncing "Belgia" with a P, but there's no alternative name for Belgium.
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« Reply #3 on: February 16, 2022, 01:05:08 PM »
« Edited: February 16, 2022, 01:11:01 PM by Helsinkian »

Well Ivory Coast no longer exists and it's now Cote d'Ivoire. Ditto East Timor/Timor-Leste. It's hardly particular to Turks.

No one in Finland calls the country Cote d'Ivoire. It's still "Norsunluurannikko", which means "Ivory Coast". Looking at various Wikipedia versions, several languages seem to retain their native names for that country.

Edit. English Wikipedia also uses "Ivory Coast" as the article's name.
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Helsinkian
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2022, 05:04:35 PM »

Alright fine we'll call Erdogan's country Türkiye if he says so.  But the bird is also being renamed Türkiye.

Looks like Turkish Airlines took your advice:

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