[tz] Country name change from Turkey to Turkiye

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Nov 18 18:47:25 UTC 2022


On 11/18/22 09:42, Ian Abbott via tz wrote:
> The "usual" English name for country code TR is still "Turkey", and I 
> guess it will take some years for that to change.

Yes, iso3166.tab uses the usual name; for example it says "Vatican City" 
instead of "the Holy See" (previously "Vatican City State"). If and when 
"Türkiye" supplants "Turkey" in popular use, we can change the 
iso3166.tab spelling; there's no rush.




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