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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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  • [–] [S] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    i regularly forget that france is not turkiye so having this map really clears things up for me

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    That's not so hard to remember! In France, turkey is called "dinde," derived from "d'Inde" ("of India"), which is much farther east than Türkiye. So just remember that in France, Türkiye = India.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    Oh shit, it's straight up on the front page for the MFA.

    https://www.mfa.gov.tr/default.en.mfa

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    of course its on the front page, its a really useful map! !

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

    But it still doesn't tell us if Northern Cyprus is part of Turkey or not

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Can confirm, am not in Turkey.

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

    Are all those green lines also Turkiye?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago*

    To be fair, wikipedia does this too and I find it helpful. The problem is the color scheme

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey

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

    This map should include the Turkish diaspora. Would be helpful for finding the nearest kebab shop

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

    I'm amazed they didn't paint Cyprus green

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    Greece will be pleased with Cypress Cyprus

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    The Republic of Cyprus has been independent from Greece for some time now.

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

    TY for gracefully avoiding my egregious mistake.

    goes and reads Wikipedia

    Oh, since 1960. In that case I'll re phrase it:

    The Republic of Cyprus will be pleased.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    What country is the big white bit?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Why don't they include the Northern Cyprus occupied territories? Are they stuck in the 1973??

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Technically they should have that on their Ministry of Here Affairs website

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