[tz] Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?
Kim Davies
kim.davies at iana.org
Mon Jun 6 19:37:28 UTC 2022
Quoting Doug Ewell via tz on Monday June 06, 2022:
>
> Actually, the name shown in UN M49, "Standard country or area codes for statistical use," is still "Turkey":
> and the Online Browsing Platform for ISO 3166 still shows "Turkey" and "the Republic of Turkey":
> despite the claims seen in various places that "it's been officially changed everywhere." This may be only a
> matter of time, though.
The UN Terminology Database (UNTERM) has implemented the requested
change:
https://unterm.un.org/unterm/display/record/unhq/na/356ac538-feb4-4d8a-a4e9-a9eb5dd40fc5
The ISO 3166 Maintenance Agency is going through its standard process
to evaluate the change and is expected to make a decision later this
month.
kim
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