THE Figaro in her new article about her Turkeystates that the country has changed nameas the word Turkey in English means turkey, but the new name “Türkiye” he has chosen, creates more problems than it should solve.
The article entitled “Turkey no longer wants to be called a turkey“, reports that in the past weeks the Turkish authorities “launched a huge communication campaign called ‘Hello Türkiye’, while they are already working to replace the words ‘made in Turkey’ with the words ‘made in Türkiye’ on exported products. The new name also appears on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. As for Turkish Airlines, a pillar of Turkish “soft power”, Erdogan announced that he wants to rename it to its Turkish name, Türkiye Hava Yollari.
But by playing with words, Erdogan risks losing his Turkishness, the response then comments. “The paradoxically, from an etymological point of view, the word Türkiye is not Turkish“, says the linguist Sonel Bosnali, professor of Turkish language at the University of Kazakhstan, recalling that the suffix “iye” comes from Arabic. The article also states that the comical paradox is that the English word “Turkey” comes from Turkey and not the other way around. A fact which, according to the response, inspired many Internet users to accuse the Turkish president of “unnecessary cacophony”, while some others have already started a campaign demanding that Turkey not change its name, but that the turkey be renamed “Türkiye”.
Also, Bairam Balchi, director of the French Institute of Oriental Studies, states that “the issue is not linguistic, but politicalBairam Balchi, director of the French Institute of Oriental Studies, tells the newspaper.
Still, the newspaper points out that “while Erdogan is active on all fronts (imminent military intervention in Syria, attempt to mediate the war in Ukraine, new tension with Greece), the change in name coincides with the preparations for the centenary of the Turkish Republic , which will be celebrated in June 2023”.
Source: News Beast
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