According to the report, a photo released by the Turkish news agency Anadolu showed a Turkish diplomat, Ayse Anank, sitting behind a new name plate at the United Nations. A letter from Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was received on Wednesday. The letter stated that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was requested to use ‘Turkey’ instead of Turkey in all official documents.
Stephane Dujarric said the name change takes effect “from the moment” the letter is received by the UN Secretariat, although it takes several days to implement the change. Referring to, for example, Burma to Myanmar, said that such requests are not unusual. According to Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, the ideal relationship between Pakistan and Turkey is beyond political changes. Pakistan and Turkey in the past 75 They have always stood by each other for years.
Reasons to change the name of Turkey
- Turkey is called Turkiye in Turkish. After independence from Western powers in 1923, the country used this name. Europeans called the Ottoman Empire and subsequently Turkey by various names. But the name that stuck out the most is the Latin “Turquia” and the most prevalent “Turkey”.
- Google “Turkey” and you’ll receive a confused mix of photos, articles, and dictionary definitions that confuse the nation with Meleagris, a huge North American bird famed for being cooked at Christmas and Thanksgiving meals.
- “Turkey” is “something highly defective” or “a dumb or foolish person” in the Cambridge dictionary.This relationship, without being flattering, is founded in a misconception that extends back generations. European conquerors wrongly thought wild turkeys were guinea fowls, which were native to West Africa, the East, and Europe via the Ottoman Empire.
The Europeans dubbed the guinea bird the turkey or the turkey, and the rest is history and dinner menu. The great majority of people in Turkiye agree that naming the nation by its local variety only makes sense and is in keeping with the country’s aims of selecting how others should recognise it.
In a nod to this, the newly released statement made it clear that “in connection with the strengthening of the ‘Turkiye’ brand, in all kinds of activities and correspondence, especially in official relations with other States and international institutions and organisations, the necessary sensitivity shown in the use of the expression ‘Türkiye’ instead of expressions like ‘Turkey’, ‘Turkei’, ‘Turkey’, etc.”
However, the government’s notification merely catches up with certain professional groups’ decades-long practises. In January 2020, the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM) and Turkey’s export umbrella group stated that they will put “Made in Turkiye” on all labels to harmonise Turkish enterprises’ worldwide branding.