Türkiye

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• Recently, an intergovernmental body agreed to a formal request for the name change in which Turkey will now be known as Türkiye.

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• History
  • ‘Turkey’ was adopted following the country’s independence in 1923.
  • Over the centuries, Europeans have referred to firstly the Ottoman state and then to Turkiye by many names.
• Location of Turkey
  • It is a transcontinental country located mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a portion on the Balkans in Southeast Europe.
• Borders
  • It shares borders with the Black Sea to the north; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq to the southeast; Syria and the Mediterranean Sea to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and Greece and Bulgaria to the northwest.
• Other countries that changed their names
  • The Netherlands, which was changed from Holland
  • Macedonia, which changed its name to North Macedonia due to political disputes with Greece
  • Iran, which changed its name from Persia in 1935
  • Siam which changed its name to Thailand
  • Rhodesia which changed to Zimbabwe to drop its colonial legacy.

Source: IE