[tz] Change Turkey to Turkiye or not?

[Ian Abbott]

On 06/06/2022 20:30, Michael H Deckers via tz wrote:
> 
>     On 2022-06-06 17:56, Russ Allbery via tz wrote:
> 
> 
>>    And just to set expectations, the time range you should be thinking of
>>    here is on the order of ten years.
> 
>      I disagree: as the name "Turkey" does not appear in the
>      interfaces produced by tzdb (not even in tzselect), the
>      change can and should be effected as soon as it is internationally
>      agreed (if it is, anyway). That's what we did when Swaziland was
>      renamed Eswatini a couple of years ago.

"Turkey" does appear as a link name, linked to "Europe/Istanbul" (as is 
"Asia/Istanbul").

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