JanitorKarl t1_j9zaqlw wrote on February 25, 2023 at 5:49 PM

Reply to comment by TheRynoceros in Earthquake death toll surpasses 50,000 in Turkey and Syria by Pierruno

For one thing, that u with the two dots is not an English letter. For another, it's not uncommon for country names in English (or other languages, for that matter) to be different than what they are in native country. For example, Spain, Germany, Norway, Japan. In other words, Turkiye, or whatever, isn't the authority on what the country is called in other languages.

[deleted] t1_j9zqn7v wrote on February 25, 2023 at 7:34 PM

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TheRynoceros t1_j9zdalv wrote on February 25, 2023 at 6:06 PM

It was a whole big thing in the news and on reddit. And if you spelled it the old way, umlauts or not, then you were seen as the asshole. Everybody played along, out of respect or whatever.

This is not something near and dear to my heart. The last time I even mentioned Turkiye, outside the context of a sandwich, was when they made a fuss about it. It was some shit that everybody else (journalists and publications specifically) had been doing right up until recently. I'm just curious why they reverted back.