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Here's something that you may find interesting. :)

The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird 'turkey'......

.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)



In the past 40 years 37 countries have changed their name, fully, partially or made alterations in some way...

Obviously one can not change the name of an apple or an orange etc in other languages,

but country names are like peoples' individual names, so if you're named John we don't call you Karen. :)



Name of my country has always been Türkiye (although the official state name was 'Ottoman' because of the founding family dynasty), it's been known as such, Türkiye, since around the 1200's, many times presented as 'Turkiye' in various maps and memoirs by travellers and cartographers since the 1200's.



The name it self has a suffix, '-iye' that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to', this is just like the Latin suffix of '-ia' which exists in such country names like Austr-ia, Indones-ia etc.

Many would remember the country Czechoslovakia which (seperated, changed names), becoming Slovak-ia and Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).

The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish been over 10,000 year is much older than Latin which is around 2300 years old with proto-Latin stretching back about 2700 years. (Yes the Orkhon Stone monuments are just a very recent occurance in Turk history, it's not the start of it, blame your historians/institutions for not teaching you that).



Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically RESEMBLE (to sound like) 'Türkiye', in time we got;

Turk-ije (Dutch)

Turch-ia (Italian),

Turq-uía (Spanish)

Turq-uie (French)

Turk-ei (German)

Turk-ey (English)



Remember that English is an 'offshoot' of the German language; you can see the Germans tried to copy the pronounciation of 'Turk-iye', with the English almost copying the German version of the pronounciation, ending up with Turkey, Turk-''e''-''y'' = (Türk-i-ye) interesting isn't it? :)



Mind you all these attempts to copy the pronounciation of the name Türkiye was WAY BEFORE the animal we currently know as turkey was FOUND by the europeans when they explored the north americas! :)



The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named as turkey by white people....



...during their exploration/invasion of north americas, they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of a fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye (again the country was KNOWN since the 1200's as Türkiye, even though the name of the state was Ottoman State), so they named the bird 'Turkey Fowl' to define 'Turkish Chicken', just like how a dog breed is known because of it's geography of origin, German Shepherd, American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.



In time you don't get to call the harehound simply as greek and the country Greek or you don't call the terrier british and the lands Britain, or shepherd as simply german so on and so on, but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just 'Turkey' and later 'turkey', and this went on for hundreds of years.



Now in modern times, this caused confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on an atlas. :)

Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language only. : )



The use of the suffix '-iye OR -ia ' is no different thn the use of the suffix '-land', which comes after various country names like;



Ire(Eire)-land,

Po(le)-land,

Eng(Anglo)-land and the like,



we can see that the suffix ''-ia/iye'' is in a way the same as ''-land''.

Furthermore, another variation of this ''-iye'' suffix is used in English in the form of the suffix ''-town'', for example James-town, Williams-town etc etc.



A Turkish example for this would be a town called Fethiye (a major tourist attraction), Feth-iye is named after the first Turkish pilot to be shot down by enemy fire, Fethi Bey who was shot by english fire in 1913 over the lands of what is modern day Syria which was part of Türkiye, Fethiye, the town been named after him, meaning ''Fethi-town'', again a play on the definitions of 'belonging to, land of'.



So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )



Best wishes. ;)

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