Turkey rebrands as Türkiye - But will it catch on? | DW News
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- Turkey has told the UN that it wishes from now on to be called "Türkiye" in all languages. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his government are on a campaign to rebrand the country's internationally recognized name from 'Turkey' -- to 'Türkiye', as it is spelled and pronounced in Turkish. For some time now, Ankara has been concerned with the English translation of the country's name - but why?
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I love politicians focusing on the real issues!
70% (official) inflation? Let's change country's name. That will keep them distracted for a while
70%? Wow, this is wild
Politicians always concentrate on what is truly important….
In fact, in Spanish, "Turquia" (pronounced exactly as the new brand) has been the name given to that country since for at least the last 500 hundred years. So no problem at all for Spanish speakers.
I can tell you, in English we may change the spelling to Turkiye but most of us at best will say Turkia and not the subtle variation that Erdogan wants us all to say. In fact the use of the "e" will probably encourage many to just keep saying Turkey since in English an ending "e" is silent. Which is probably how we ended up pronouncing it so badly in the first place.
@@no_rubbernecking we say Turkiye as Turks
@@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 Yes thank you, that is a well-known fact.
@@no_rubbernecking the world is bigger than 5. We also are exist. We are Turks. Even Europa dont want to accept the new name of Turkiye, new name of our Turkiye is hurting them. They should learn to respect our name, our thoughts. We dont insult anyone
Im not Turkish Turk, but as Turks we have right to claim our rights
@@kamalaalkishiyeva1582 I understand. I personally will try to say Turkiye when it will be understood. However please try to understand that in English it's a bit of a mouthful. We are just not trained with that set of phonemes and it's very awkward for us. Turkia is a very close approximation. As an American, if i say Turkiye in front of an average crowd i'm liable to get myself in serious trouble. I have to be careful and consider the education level of whom i'm speaking to.
We should rename the bird, Türkiye
And Sir David Attenborough should've changed his name to Boaty McBoatface.
🤣🤣🤣 lmao 😜
lol
No one will notice, no one cared about it having the same name as an animal, that's a primary school level joke
Primary school, eh? That'll be why, at 60 years of age, I'm finding this whole saga hilarious - Regression.
Woow..now that is like really very very important for the people of Turkey
I know your being sarcastic and I agree. But I think more for Erdoğan who needs a distraction from his failing economic policies. Now he just wants special treatment.
I don't think the average English-speaker is thinking of the bird when mentioning the country.
We aren't.
Fun fact: In Portuguese a Turkey is called a Peru. In French it's called a Dinde (meaning "from India").
We weren't, but now we are
Definitely thinking about the connection now.
Well I guess he was trying to do away with the phrase that describes shoddily manufactured articles
like home appliances ..as in '' it's a Turkey ''..now it will be '' it's a Turkey ...yeah''
Completely understandable, if I was a bird, I wouldn't want to get associated with Turkey either.
In Portuguese, the name of Cameroon is Camarões which also means shrimps in that language.
Yes, but the entire country is named for the Wouri estuary which was called Camarões by early Portuguese explorers.
lol
Thank you, Erdogan. With that, all your country's problems have gone away. /s
it was important to us
as a man from Asia, what was it called when the electricity went out in Istanbul?
Turkish delight
If anything people will make more fun of Turkey now as they are more aware of it, and when you say it even with the special accent no one/ most people outside Turkey will not bother to learn it still sounds like the animal name in English.
You or I may not learn it. But what about next generation? They'll be using this new name.
Do you know anyone who is still using Ceylone instead of its current name Sri Lanka? Things will change eventually.
@@joputhiyaparambil07 This is NOT a new name. This is already the name of their country. He simply wants to attempt to force this way of spelling and pronunciation on outsiders.
I will still call it Turkey 🦃
Change it all you want...you will still be Turkeys in my heart ❤️🇹🇷
🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃
Like you.
Gobble Gobble.
Jibbijabba Quit making excuses and Grab the original name you willywonka
There is no relation with bird complex.. A solution related to the common use of the name Turkiye in Turkish and English. Saying Turkiye is very simple by the way, Turki-yeah Turki-yeah Turkiyeah Turkiyeee.. If you want to report on a real "Country Vs Bird," you can look at "Australian Emu War" from 1932.
It will always be Turkey to me. I’m too old for these word games.
Nationalism from Turkey trying to become something they are not. Change policy not names. They will slowly turn into Pakistan if they continue their traitorous path against the West.
It’s not word games, it’s just their name in their language. It’s like Germany and Deutschland
We say Turkiye ترکیه as Persians(Iranians) from ottman empire to now😁😁😁
Yeah Turkey 🦃 is Turkey 🦃
@@mikechil2948?
Pleaaase call us Türkiye😄
As a citizen of Turkey call us what you want, Turkey only need democracy, good economy, production.
@Military Expert ne diyon aga. Çok mu demokrasi var ülkede.
@Military Expert ekonomi çoh mu güzel
@Military Expert bir derdim ülkeye Turkey denmesiydi
No, no, the thing the most is honour, because you have none.
"Türkiye Dinner" at Thanksgiving is going to be a hard sell in the US.
It will take a bit of time and effort, but it's for the greater good 😉
@CanusLanus Not sure what you are talking about. But the joke is on you we are in NATO, for quite a while
you can't change how a thing (in this case a Country) is called in another language. to me, an Italian, it is and remains Turchia; to English speakers, it is and remains Turkey.
Istanbul will always be Constantinople to the Greeks 🤣
I'm third generation American, citizen of the US by birth, of Italian (ALL Italian) descent who speaks English and holds both a US passport and an Italian passport.
To me, the appropriate spelling has recently become Türkiye. Your attempt to persuade me to spell it any other way would be utter folly. And I am still working on pronunciation.
Your assertion is absolutely incorrect.
@@Midori_Seabreeze i always found the word switzerland to be so weird but obviously every language has it’s own way to name things. so if you wanna use one of the „original“ names you got plenty of choices: schweiz (official german)/schwiiz(spoken german)/suisse(french)/svizzera(italian)/svizra(romansh), they‘re all pretty ;)
Same. Swedes will still call it Turkiet
@@SophiesDriver Please learn something about languages. Do you say Iscoçya instead of Scotland? Do you say Deutschland instead of Germany? Do you say Hrvatska instead of Croatia? Do you say Suomi instead of Finland? Do you say Sverige instead of Sweden? Do you say Nippon/Nihon instead of Japan? Then you are absolutely incorrect.
Sounds like something your typical politician would want to do want to do not something important but something is simple as changing your name from turkey to turkey yeah. I guarantee that people are still gonna refer to that country as turkey.
You guarantee it? Well, not all people, I already learned how to type Türkiye, the new form.
@@SophiesDriver Good for you. No one cares.
@@SophiesDriver Congrats
Nah is still Turkey for me 🦃
Adequate people, hearing "Turkey", don't think about the bird immediately, but about the country. This bird is not really popular, neither important. When European says that he or she is from the Netherlands, some people confuse it with New Zealand, which is far away from Europe. People used to call the Netherlands just Holland.
Holland is part of the Netherlands and people in the US think of the bird frequently as it is popular in sandwiches and around Thanksgiving. Gobble, gobble.
Yeah it really depends on where you live. Turkeys are really common in Canada and so come to mind immediately
Turkey, Turkish, or Turkiye. We still know them as Turkey is all the same bro.
Türkiye ❤️🇹🇷
The turkey is a bird I'd happily associate my country with
it's actually named after the country, because turkish traders would sell a similar bird.
OK so when is Germany going to insist on Deutschland?
When Erdogan speaks, it sounds like a super drunk person making up sounds.
In Turkish u can call it whatever u want but in English is Turkey!
The only issue I see with the name change is the umlaut „ü“. It doesn‘t appear on English keyboards, so I bet many would lazily spell it as „Turkiye“. I mean, some US states even banned diacritics on names in official documents. I‘m looking at you California!
I'm not about to change my keyboard to write ü, it's Turkey.
Ü yazmak zorunda değilsin ufaklık. Turkiye doğrusudur.
Turkey is still turkey for me
Eswatini use to be called Swaziland, and Myanmar was Burma. For cities, Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai were Madras, Calcutta and Bombay. I don't see any reason why Türkiye won't be the more widely used name in the near future, but the double dot accent over the second letter may disappear in some countries with inconvenient keyboard standards. My question is what is the adjective? Türkiyish? Türkiyan? Türkiyese? or just Türkiye before a noun?
Probably still Turkish.
few people use Eswatini or Myanmar in any event
In Turkish language, we use "Türk" word for our nationality and we use "Türkçe" word for the language we speak. I think these are not changed. Nation's name "Turkey" only changed as "Türkiye" globally.
If we analyze the word "Türkiye" in Turkish; It consists of three syllables in the form of Tür-ki-ye. The "-iye" at the end of the word is a possessive suffix and this suffix indicates belonging to. So "Türkiye" means belonging to Turks in English. There are also different place names like this in Turkey. For example, "Süleymaniye Camii" means Süleyman's Mosque, or "Mecidiyeköy", a district name in Istanbul, can be translated as Mecit's Village (tr. camii = en. mosque, tr. köy = en. village).
Turkye is an old name for Turkey. Turks always say Turkye regardless. I am English and for me is Turkey as per my language. In English language there is no word Turkye definitely not written in Turkish alphabet.
Regarding the bird , it has got that name as the trade went via Turkey.
This word first recorded in English language as Torke
@@selimsahkulu78 nice to know how it was... .
Great.
We say Turkiye ترکیه as Persians(Iranians) from ottman empire to now😁😁😁
I like turkeys
Toorkiye
I'll refuse to use "ü" in english alphabet
In Spanish we just say "Turquía" pretty phonetically similar to Turkiye
yes, It’s Latin origin.
I will only recognise it if they let Finland and Sweden into nato.
Now I will go and eat, now im hungary..ehm hungry gosh this is hard.
They let nkow so it's Türkiye ❤️🇹🇷❤️🤣🤣
Germany was Hungary, went after Turkey, slipped on Greece, and broke China. .. can't change that, my oldest joke.
My alphabet doesn't have the ü (even if my keyboard does), so... Good luck with that. Still calling it "Turquia", and nothing wrong with that.
"in all languages." How does this happen with countries that does not use the Latin alphabet like Japanese? Or language which does not even have the sounds to pronounce this new version? How about you leave other people languages alone. I wonder what does Turkey call France, Germany, Japan, United States in their language? I think they should change it so it does not match their grammar rules or alphabet!
Usa - Amerika Birleşik Devletleri France- Fransa Germany-Almanya Japan-Japonya
@@ABakasetas Well then, Gobble Gobble.
I'll make him a deal. We'll say Türkiye if he approves Nato membership for Sweden and Finland.
is it important to refer to "he" ?
👌
Or we could call Turkey "Wet Blanket" till Erdogan does approve Sweden and Finland into NATO.
Good grief. Does this guy realize we’re all laughing at this? He needs to focus on real issues not this nonsense.
I wonder what would happen if Germany decided to change its name? 🤔
There's probably no other country carrying such a variety of names in different languages. That would be quite an undertaking to change 😁 it just reflects the rich history of the ancient tribes of what is Germany today.
German: Deutschland
English: Germany
French: Allemagne
Swedish: Tyskland
Japanese: Doitsu
Finish: Saksa
Romani: Ssassitko temm
Welsh: Yr Almaen
Polish: Niemcy
and many more
@@STURM323 add
Arabic: almania
@@balporsugu2.0 nice one, but Stan is not Arabic word
Balad or belad is an Arabic means land or lands of
So "belad alalman" mean Dutchlands 🤔
Spanish: Alemania
@@STURM323 in Turkish it is called: "Almanya" for Germany but I do not know where this "Almanya" word come from.
"Aware of his history and background" and still denying the Armenian genocide
Why should we recognize a genocide that does not exist?
Türkiye is actually called something similar in most countries, only in English it is called Turkey like the bird. So, most people wont even have to change how they call the Türkiye.
İn Turkish the name of a Turkey is "Hindi" which means really "Hindi" an Indian language. And Orange means "Portakal" in Turkish.
Just a waste time. When a leader stay in power for too long, this is what happens.
I think he should get a doctors note confirming he was born intersex before we sign off on a transision.
In Spanish the name of the country is Turquía, which is very very close to the way they seem to pronounce Türkiye, go figure. In English I will keep using Turkey of course. Also, the bird is named after the country, as I recall the British used to call them "turkish chicken" and then simply "turkey", or something along those lines.
As a native Spanish speaker I have no difficulty whatsoever to pronounce Türkiye exactly as it is pronounced in Turkish (or shall I write Türkish?), including its closed front rounded ü, so Im OK with the new name, but it will probably take some time until the change is automatic in spontaneous speech.
It's just only 🦃🦃🦃🦃😂😂
Lmao
Getting roasted hahahaha
@@emanggitulah4319 yeah 👍🏿
The advertised ad for this video says "Visit Turkey"
Idea: The rest of NATO refuses to call it "Türkiye" unless they let Finland and Sweden into the alliance. What would Erdogan do?!
Finally! They should do it a decade ago🎉 Also it sounds much much better now
Wow inflation and massive job lost.. focus on Turkey...
Latin/ Romance languages speakers call it Türkiye anyway
I'll still be having a Türkiye for Christmas.
Meanwhile Deutschland/Germany/Allemagne/Niemcy/Tyskland/Saksa/Vācija: ... 😔
LOL... You could have increased interst rate. But rather rebrand your country's name
Hmm if you want me to say Türkiye you gotta change Constantinople back
Otherwise, it’s Turkey 🦃
maybe in your dreams.
@@eliff8700 'Constantinople'! If it works for the Ecumenical Patriarch, it works for me.
My IQ is too low and my arrogance is too high to say Türkiye
It's a sad day for🦃.
Turkey sounds better
I don't care if you name your country Chicken or Dinosaur, but I want to eat roasted turkey.
It would be funny if everyone starts to call turkey the bird as turkiye.
We have to do that.
I am curious whether the English-speaking nations - outside official spheres - will actually let themselves be dictated which country names they use in English.
About as well as Japan getting English speakers to call it Nihonkoku and Germany is getting English speakers to call it Deutschland.
@@matthewbeasley7765 Nihon and Nippon already mean Japan, don't need to add koku to it.
No one can force you to do that although it depends heavily on advertising.
For example the official name for Greece in UN is the Hellenic Republic but very few countries call it Hellas and i don't see why it would matter anyway, people can call it whatever they want.
@@kreight_ that umlaut isn't going to make people adopt the new name.
They shouldn't.
A Turkey by any other names still goes gobble gobble.🦃
More importantly, are Sverige and Suomi going to be allowed to join NATO/OTAN? I mean, Hrvatska, Shqipëri and Crna Gora have been members for a while now.
Not to mention deutchland and Hellas
@@matiyak4571 Oh yes! But I think the Confoederatio Helvetica will remain neutral.
NATO is America's women and children to hide behind like cowards they are. They need Europeans to fight and die for their imperialism
@@frmcf and don’t forget Österreich 🇦🇹 too! Will remain neutral
Yea but Magyarország is playing both sides
So we don't call Germany, "Dutchland", we don't call Japan, "Nihon", so TURKEY stays. 🤣🤣
*Deutchland
@@canpirtici7658
*Alemania
🦃 stays 🦃
Either way it's stuffed...
😁
Now it sounds like Toyota 😂
This is better called as follow: (Erdogan’s) Nationalistic psychological COMPLEX.
A turkey 🦃 will always have been named after Turkey. It is not the country that has been named after the bird 🦃 ... They should have better asked all English speaking countries to change the bird’s name to “türkiye”. 😄
So, now they are not “Turks”, they are... “Türkiyeans”? The adjective is no more “Turkish”, but “türkiyeic”.
A rebranding requires also a logo change: they may consider changing to a flag showing a “full moon” alongside a Saturn! A modern, Hi-tech logo!
And what about “lira”? Is this really a serious monetary name? They must change it to “para”; it is so much more “türkiyeic”.
😱 Erdogan’s nightmare has just begun...
Name change is going no where. History is important Turkey 🦃
no one asked you dude 😂
He believes in his own words, how sweet
Then Erdogan shall call Sweden by its real name Sverige and Finlands real name Suomi.. Fair shall be fair.....
I wonder if they need to reapply to NATO. Back of the line, biznatch.
Alright, but don’t change Batman tho…
Hey a few years ago Czech Republic changed it's name to it's real name Czechia Republic, so what's the problem if Turkey is rebranding its name to real name "Türkiye".
Some people still call it Czech Republic to this day. I never hear a country’s new name that was changed years ago.
Why not I would like people to call Norway, Norge
@Apollion Sacrez Leonard yes I understand but that is the proper name . It could be fun as a young child to learn all the names of the countries in the world in its original tongues. It certainly would be a challenge 🤗
@Apollion Sacrez Leonard it's literally how it's spelled.
In Spanish we always said "Turquía", and it sounds almost as Erdogan wants it to be pronounced.
Ya im sorry turkey, youll always be turkey to me. No disrespect, that is just what im used to.
Wont catch on. Its always Tyrkland here.
For anyone saying it won’t catch on, I’d just like to point out that Istanbul was once Constantinople so…
Turki is already the name used in Asia from before. Europeans and americans are the ones who call the country Turkey. The turkish people call the country turkiye too
I think it depends on which spelling and pronunciation the media uses as to how the general public uses it. People would need to hear and see the new spelling a lot for it to stick.
The media can follow my lead as I write Türkiye if they want to.
Google might help with that 🌞
Great way to distract people from the real issues.
Hope people spell turkey as türkiye and not turkey
For me I'll always be calling it turkey 🦃🦃🦃 and I'll roast it in my oven yummy 😋😋😋
He changed the name of an entire country just because a comedian made fun of the country's original name. How petty can Edorgan be? Comedians always going to find something to joke about
Dictators do be like that.
Germany
Turkey
Hungary
Italy
... it's a basic anglophone suffix. Erdogan is being ridiculous.
The news sounds funny, but no need to change anything in russian version since we don't have birds named Turtsiya (Турция)...
🦃🦃🦃🦃
what🤣🤣🤣🤣 heart attack for Erdogan 🤣
atanla alay etme atanın ayagını öp
@@selambabus3582 Speak English I cant understand Turkish🤔🤔🤔
@@mohammad_youtube564 don't make fun of your ancestor kiss your ancestor's foot
So, is it pronounced Turkey or Turkey?
I have no problem with that! If Germany wants us to call Germany Deutschland because it sounds like germ in English it's okay by me! So if Turkey wants to change that's okay too 😉
nah, not deutschland only "schlaaand" with three a's.
@@buddy1155 ACH Lieber Gott!!!
@@buddy1155 Well you are really a xenophobe living in the past in your mind. When were you born? You probably also vote for Führer Trump.
@@buddy1155 : The German Empire (2nd Reich) lasted for 47 years, and the 3rd Reich lasted for only 13 years - and yet everyone remembers the latter and no-one remembers the former.
It's about as sad as calling burma as myanmar. Everyone who recognizes the rule as illegitimate will still keep calling it the original name.
I think Turkey has more pressing issues to focus on than a silly name change.
I don't like Erdogan but it was nice that he did this
Return of the Ottoman Empire
If Turkey does not want us to confuse the country for the bird, let us call the bird "türkiye" and keep "Turkey" for the country. . . . Seriously, let's stop this BS and Erdogan's distraction efforts. Turkey for both. Turkey, Turkey, Turkey! Like the bird, its country, and its president. TURKEY!
"Erdogan" has so many negative connotations that while at it, the man should seriously consider changing his own name, too. He seems to favour the Turkish equivalent of "Führer". Best make it official.
@@peabase Totally agree, makes sense for us to refer to him now officially as President Turkey, Gobble, gobble.
Hanguk, not Korea!
So they are going to tell us how to say the name in English? Centuries too late.