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[–] 91 points 2 months ago* (12 children)

0/10 map, no key

How am I meant to know which colour means Türkiye and which means not Türkiye

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    If they never changed the name from Turkey we wouldn’t have this conundrum

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    In Türkiye, Turkey was always called Türkiye. They just asked the rest of the world to use the Turkish word.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Sure but I still don't get why they did that. Germans aren't going around insisting that their country be called Deutchland in english as well. Or Spain => España. Or Sweden => Sverige. Or Finland => Suomi. There's so many examples I could plug here. Languages have different names for countries, no need to throw a fit about it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Names evolve over time for a variety of reasons. The examples you provide aren’t also used as an insult the way turkey (the bird) is.

    Recently there’s also Czechia, Eswantini, North Macedonia.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    A fair few doesn't have a good pronunciation in other languages that those native speakers can reliably understand. That's why we have localizations in the first place. Here in Sweden, Turkey (Turkiet) doesn't sound like the bird (kalkon). It makes more sense to show the localized name and their internal name next to each other, and this is already common in many maps.

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