The State Department will start spelling Turkey as "Türkiye" in diplomatic and formal settings. The name change was approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names following a request from the ...

an alternative pronunciation and spelling of the country’s name may have had some Australians doing a double take. An official letter submitted last June by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt ...

The UN has accepted its request to be officially known as Türkiye in English, as it is in Turkish. The country may be unusual in the reason for changing its name, but it is hardly the only one to ...

Is Turkey’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story ... to follow suit – does raise the question of why countries seek to change their names. As ...

"The word Türkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilisation, and values of the Turkish nation in ... is certainly not the first country to change its name. Iran, Thailand, Sri Lanka ...