Türkiye, not Turkey: US diplomats agree to spelling change
State department says it will stop writing the word Turkey and use preferred spelling of Türkiye in public communications
The US state department has said it will largely stop writing the word Turkey and instead call the country Türkiye, agreeing to a request by the Turkish government, which resents the inadvertent association with poultry.
In a statement announcing measures to disrupt financiers of the Islamic State group, the state department wrote of joint action between “the United States and Türkiye,” written with an umlaut over the u.
