It's Turkey, NOT Türkiye
Smyrna, NOT Izmir
Nicomedia, NOT Izmit
Nicaea, NOT Iznik
Adrianople, NOT Edirne
Iconium, NOT Konya
Attalia, NOT Antalya
Prusa, NOT Bursa
Ancyra, NOT Ankara
Caesarea, NOT Kayseri
Trepizond, NOT Trabzon
Alexandretta, NOT Iskenderun
Antioch, NOT Antakya
Pergamon NOT Bergama
Myrsine, NOT Mersin
Magnesia, NOT Manisa
No other country is as autistic about namings as Turdey. Even when Iran changed its name from Persia they had valid reason rather than a simple pronounciation difference, and they never forced anyone to use that name.
FUCK YOU. YOU WILL NOT GET ME TO SPEAK YOUR SHITTY LANGUAGE
Tyler Rodriguez
James Gray
ukrainians did this LMAO
Also: Бългapия not Bulgaria!! What do you mean you can't say Ъ ?!
Adrian Cruz
More like taqquiya am I right?
Juan Johnson
Interesting post
Tyler Kelly
And just like that the young turks won from beyond the grave...
Gabriel Brooks
Make Turkyiei Anatolia Again
Eli Morris
it’s fucking Constantinople, simple as
David Jenkins
rebranding because not enough people where buying his watermelons
Leo Young
turkeev
Connor Baker
Guess I will have to call the big thanksgiving bird from now on “Türkiye”
Gavin Russell
to the city
The name İstanbul (Turkish pronunciation: [isˈtanbuɫ] ( listen), colloquially Turkish pronunciation: [ɯsˈtambuɫ]) is commonly held to derive from the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" (pronounced Greek pronunciation: [is tim ˈbolin]), which means "to the city" and is how Constantinople was referred to by the local ...
Brandon Sullivan
ironic because roaches neither give nor thank for anything
Easton Baker
Stop deadnaming them you bigot!
Parker Sullivan
The conqueror defines the fate, no the ravaged and defeated on the ground.
Hunter Edwards
kek
Cameron Ross
They can say ъ they just u for both ъ (understand) and ю (universal).
Sebastian Murphy
>it's turkiye reee
Camden Kelly
No.
Alexander Jones
Ameriburgers aren't gonna bother figuring out how to have umlauts on the Ü. Also fuck turkey, I think of them the same way I do jannies.
Josiah Allen
Similar to the first three cities I listed.
Eis Smyrna--->Izmir
Eis Nicomedia--->Isnikmid--->Iskimid--->Izmit
Eis Nicaea--->Iznik
I assume it's because Turkish has a locative noun case while Greek does not, that is why they kept "eis".
Charles Hall
you're an immigrant, not an expat.
Camden Edwards
Letting them into NATO was a mistake. Incompatible with the west. That also means less globohomo though so it's hard to root for a side. Just speaking from the perspective of NATO itself.
Jackson Scott
Stop it you bigots
Thomas Sanders
>That also means less globohomo though
LMFAO
Gavin Hernandez
Gabriel Johnson
I'm renaming the bird to Türkiye
John Butler
>Roaché
Nicholas James
They're memeing this on all turk airlines flights right now.
It sounds fucking weird.
Adrian Carter
I love how all of you are seething coping and dilating about this.
NE MUTLU TÜRKÜM DIYENE
Cooper Davis
Noah Gomez
And Peter likes to be called Pidor.
Wyatt Campbell
>Trepizond, NOT Trabzon
Actually it's Trapezous