Turkey

The Turkish Foreign Minister has sent a letter to the UN formally requesting that his country be referred to as Türkiye, amid fears about his nation being ...

In December, Mr Erdogan ordered the use of Türkiye to better represent Turkish culture and values, including demanding that "Made in Türkiye" be used instead of "Made in Turkey" on exported products. The country called itself Türkiye in 1923 after its declaration of independence. - The country called itself Türkiye in 1923 after its declaration of independence

Turkey's move for a name change is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird.

In December, Mr Erdogan ordered the use of Türkiye to better represent Turkish culture and values, including demanding that "Made in Türkiye" be used instead of "Made in Turkey" on exported products. Turkey's move for a name change is seen as part of a push by Ankara to rebrand the country and dissociate its name from the bird, with the government launching a campaign in December. Turkey will be known as "Türkiye" at the United Nations from now on after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara on Wednesday.

The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December. "The process we started under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in order to increase ...

It doesn't happen every day but it's not unusual that countries change their names." The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December. "It's not an issue, it's not for us to accept or not accept," Dujarric said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country...

Turkish ministries began using Turkiye in official documents. Earlier this year, the government also released a promotional video as part of its attempts to change its name in English. The video shows tourists from across the world saying "Hello Turkiye" at famous destinations. In December, Erdogan ordered the use of Turkiye to better represent Turkish culture and values, including demanding that "Made in Turkiye" be used instead of "Made in Turkey" on exported products.

With their ancient lineage, prehistoric nesting behaviour and taste for blood, brush turkeys are proving to be the suburban dinosaur.

The male turkeys build giant nesting mounds that can be three metres tall and are made of two or three tonnes of leaf litter. Sign up to our fortnightly Environment newsletter here. Behavioural ecologist Professor Darryl Jones, a brush turkey expert, had also never heard of the turkeys feasting on roadkill. And they could just go off and make more eggs. Every other bird sits on their eggs and the warmth of their body is what incubates them. “That means they were freed from prenatal care.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced this week that his country would be sending a letter to the United Nations and other international ...

“Flip through the Cambridge Dictionary and ‘turkey’ is defined as ‘something that fails badly’ or ‘a stupid or silly person.’” The country had adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, or the Republic of Turkey, after its founding in 1923. The Turkish economy has been in crisis for months due to a rapid rise in inflation, amid the president’s push to cut interest rates. The moves can sometimes cause confusion. The move aligns the country’s English-language name with its Turkish-language name. “It is not uncommon for us to receive such requests,” he told The Washington Post.

A man stands with a national flag as people visit the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey, in Ankara on May 19.

The Kuwaiti embassy late on Thursday summoned the US charge d'affaires on the back of the embassy's "pro-gay rights post," the state-run Kuwait News Agency reported. "From exactly the day after that scandal happened to me, I just talked about cinema, I just thought that I am alive, and I need to work. #Pride2022 #YouAreIncluded," it said, referring to the US president. Ebrahimi fled Iran for France in 2006 after a "private video" of hers leaked, fearing arrest and lashings from judicial authorities, she said. "All human beings should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear no matter who they are or whom they love," the embassy tweeted, in English and Arabic, on Thursday with an image of a pride flag. The timing of the name change is "crucial" to next year's elections, he said. The draft resolution will be in response to two reports obtained by CNN and given to IAEA member states on May 30, stating that Iran has yet to provide answers for unexplained nuclear activities at three undeclared sites. When Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi fled her country in 2006 due to a leaked tape, she thought her career was over. The White House on Thursday however took the rare step of recognizing the role played by MBS in extending a ceasefire in Yemen. However, Iran has not provided any evidence to support this explanation," the report stated. Polls from late last year show support for the ruling AK party at around 31-33% according to Reuters A similar attempt was made in the mid-1980s under Prime Minister Turgut Ozal but it never gained as much traction, he said.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has written to the United Nations formally requesting his country now be referred to as Turkiye, the state-run ...

Turkish ministries began using Turkiye in official documents. Earlier this year, the government also released a promotional video as part of its attempts to change its name in English. The video shows tourists from across the world saying “Hello Turkiye” at famous destinations. In December, Erdogan ordered the use of Turkiye to better represent Turkish culture and values, including demanding that “Made in Turkiye” be used instead of “Made in Turkey” on exported products.

The Turkish government is asking that the country be called by its Turkish name, a change which the United Nations has now adopted.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has sent a letter to the United Nations formally requesting that his country...

Turkish ministries began using Turkiye in official documents. Earlier this year, the government also released a promotional video as part of its attempts to change its name in English. The video shows tourists from across the world saying "Hello Turkiye" at famous destinations. In December, Erdogan ordered the use of Turkiye to better represent Turkish culture and values, including demanding that "Made in Turkiye" be used instead of "Made in Turkey" on exported products.

Turkey's opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the wake of Russia's war on Ukraine has elevated the ...

The U.S. and Europe could wait out their stormy relationship with Ankara until after the elections, but that banks on a far-from-certain Erdoğan defeat and the notion that it would result in an immediate change in Turkish foreign policy. It could signal to Ankara that the West is taking its concerns seriously, while also providing a space in which to find mutually beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders in the autonomous enclave. Europe, therefore, has sufficient leverage to condition its continued support for the YPG on the organization opening up political space for its local Kurdish rivals. There will be limited space to address Turkey’s status as a difficult NATO ally or Erdoğan’s combative engagement, and no space to revive the peace process with the PKK. The EU is by far Turkey’s largest trading partner: in 2020, 33.4% of Turkey’s imports came from the EU and 41.3% of the country’s exports went to the bloc. Putting Turkish responsibility for the current state of affairs to one side, the trans-Atlantic alliance is guilty of failing to establish forward-looking approaches to tumult in Turkey’s Middle Eastern neighborhood, opting instead for incoherent and reactive engagement that has put issues like the PKK conflict and broader Kurdish political questions on the back burner. Such dynamics could empower Europe to dial down tensions over NATO and address questions surrounding the future of the PKK’s relationship with the U.S.-led anti-IS coalition, within which a number of European countries are key players. Turkey’s conflict with the PKK has long complicated Turkey’s relations with the U.S. and its European allies. While Turkey may be using the Nordic NATO accession talks to receive Western backing for another campaign, it has a long record of carrying out cross-border incursions against the PKK and Erdoğan may also be trying to secure other concessions, including the lifting of embargoes on Turkey’s defense industry. Turkey’s opposition to Sweden and Finland joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in the wake of Russia’s war on Ukraine has elevated the Kurdish question on the international stage. The result was a renewal of a domestic conflict that has taken on multiple transnational dimensions and produced untold humanitarian crises. But Ankara’s opposition to Swedish and Finnish accession, based on their refusal to extradite PKK members, as well as followers of the Islamic cleric Fethullah Gülen (whom Ankara accuses of instigating a 2016 coup attempt), highlights that the Kurdish question cannot be decoupled from Western security interests.

President Tayyip Erdogan told NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg by phone that Turkey's security concerns regarding Sweden and Finland's membership ...