>>16582880>>16583028looked into it and found this
>>According to Turkish state broadcaster TRT World, it was also to avoid a pejorative association with turkey, the bird.which was kinda weird because i dont know anyone except 1 extremely unique person that considers "turkey" a "negative" thing or anything even remotely close to a pejorative, basically everyone except that 1 person would think of turkey as in the bird or the meat of the bird, so i looked deeper and read from the TRT world primary source
>Flip through the Cambridge Dictionary and "turkey" is defined as "something that fails badly" or "a stupid or silly person."i have never in my life ever heard anyone use turkey in this manner, not in real life, not in movies or tv, not even on the internet, if they didnt want to be associated with the bird and more in tune with their own culture, ok whatever, but to say that "turkey" has a pejorative connotation is retarded, pretty sure most people would consider turkey a good food too, i always hear it's a healthier alternative to chicken so the only real group of people that would actually dislike the food are the vegan wackos, and even then it's a tossup if they dislike the word "turkey" because it's the same word for the living organism which they like
>Even way in the future, if this place (or the world in general) exists by then, people are still just going to call it Turkey.idk, language changes a lot over time, like if you read original shakespeare it sounds really weird and nobody talks like that anymore, words fall in and out of favor, alternative spelling crop up, so i think it's possible Turkiye becomes commonplace but in the end i doubt it because it's not really a big enough issue for people to really care, related example is how some publications are capitalizing "black" when referencing black people for some retarded reason, in that case there's obviously incentive to do so whereas standing up for the turkish culture just isnt in vogue
