[tz] Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?

[Soner Gönül]

Also, as a Turkish, I found that quite weird.

The name "turkey", as an animal, comes from the "country" itself. "Türkiye"
word is not even Turkish, it's Latin (coming from "turchia").

References:

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/why-americans-call-turkey-turkey/383225/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey#Greek_and_Latin_sources

On Mon, Jun 6, 2022 at 7:11 PM Jacob Pratt via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> It is far too early for a change like this to be made. Until (and if)
> Türkiye becomes more common than Turkey in ordinary usage, don't expect
> anything to change.
>
> Jacob Pratt
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2022, 12:08 柳芯宇 via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
>
>> In some of the tz files, I found several mentions of "Turkey", this could
>> be confusing since in my dictionaries, Turkey points to a food made by
>> chicken, rather than a country.
>>
>> As recently UN and NATO suggests, I think it would be better and more representative
>> to use Turkiye instead of Turkey, as we shound't setup times for just
>> foods, right?
>>
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>

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