Erdogan changed the name of Turkey, now the country will be known by this new name
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has renamed his country Turkey. Now Turkey will be known as Turkiye. Earlier this month, President Erdogan issued a statement saying that he had changed the country's internationally recognized name from Turkey to Turkiye. He also pointed out that the word Turkiye best reflects and expresses the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish nation. Now Turkey will be used instead of Turkey for all types of trade, international institutions and diplomatic functions. In Turkish language, Turkey is called Turkiye. After its independence from Western occupation in 1923, Turkey came to be known as Turkiye. For centuries, Europeans addressed this country first by the name of Ottoman State and then Turkiye, but the name that remained the most discussed was Turkia in Latin. Later it changed to Turkish and this was made the official name. If someone types Turkish in Google, he will get a messy set of definitions of images, articles and dict