Turkiye Flashcards

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Q

UN has changed the name of republic of turkey from turkey to

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Türkiye (pronounced tur-key-yay)

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2
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turkiye capital

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Ankara

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3
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PRESIDENT OF TURKIYE

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Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

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4
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Turkiye currency

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Turkish lira

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5
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other changes in names early back in history

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he Netherlands, for instance, decided to stop calling itself Holland, Macedonia was renamed North Macedonia due to political conflicts with Greece, Persia became Iran in 1935, Thailand emerged from Siam in 1939, and Rhodesia was renamed Zimbabwe in 1…

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turkiye’s initiatives to popularise

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‘Made in Türkiye’ will appear on all exported products. In January, a tourism campaign with the catchphrase ‘Hello Türkiye’ was also launched.

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7
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why

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better depicts cultural roots

sick of all the names
turkey is a bird
turkey means a silly or stupid person or something that fails super bad
ottoman state
latin turquia
etc etc

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8
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turkey got its independence in

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1923 from ottoman

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