At the UN, Turkey will henceforth be officially named in all languages by its Turkish name, “Türkiye”, and no longer “Turkey”, something that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wanted, the United Nations announced yesterday, Thursday. .
“The change has immediate effect,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s spokesman Antonio Guterres told AFP.
The diplomat clarified that an official letter from Ankara, which was sent to the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday, June 1st, immediately changed the name of Turkey.
On Tuesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoλουlu posted on his Twitter account the letter he had signed, addressed to the UN Secretary-General, asking that “our country’s name in the UN, in foreign languages, be registered as’ Turkey ‘”.
Ankara therefore calls for it to no longer be called “Turquie” in French and especially “Turkey” in English, a word also meaning “turkey” in English, and could therefore have a negative connotation.
The head of the Turkish diplomacy refers in his post on Twitter to the will of President Erdogan, from the end of 2021, “to increase the value of our country’s name”. Indeed, in the economic field, Ankara has for some years wanted to impose the international brand “made in Türkiye” instead of “made in Turkey”.
“Some may find this name change foolish, but it places Erdogan in the role of protector and guardian of international respect for the country,” said Mustafa Aksakal, a professor of history at Georgetown University in New York. York Times.
The American newspaper reminds that in June 2023, after 20 years in which Erdogan will be in power, Turkey will have presidential elections and will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Source: Capital
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