Sharpen your umlauts: Turkey is now Türkiye, at least in many U.S. documents.
Ceding to a long-standing Turkish demand, the State Department on Thursday agreed to begin spelling the country’s name in Turkish in its official documents.
State Department spokesman Ned Price said the decision to change the spelling was in response to a request from the Turkish Embassy in Washington.It was an unusual concession. The U.S. government has always generally used the anglicized spelling of countries’ names in official documents — for example, using “Spain,” not “España” and “Germany,” not “Deutschland.”
“The phrase Türkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish nation in the best way,” Erdogan said in a decree issued at the time. It comes as Erdogan has increasingly engaged in nationalistic, populist policies that critics say impinge on democracy.But the U.S. took its time. Price said the U.S.
The U.S. government, and much of U.S. media, changes the spellings or names of countries and their cities in certain circumstances. Such was the case with numerous Ukrainian cities — Kiev is now Kyiv, Odessa is now Odesa, for instance — as that country sought to shed vestiges of Russian domination.
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