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Mind your language

Why should Turkey be allowed to change its name?

11 June 2022

9:00 AM

11 June 2022

9:00 AM

Turkey has told the UN it wants tobe called Türkiye. Even when it is written in capitals, it would still like thelittle dot over the i, thank you, as İ. Exports will now bear thelabel ‘Made in Türkiye’ instead of ‘Made in Turkey’.

Turkey is of course a name for a delicious bird – atfirst labelled the guinea fowl, until the New World creature was discovered.But

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