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egeozcan
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ISO name change for Türkiye
Also Hindistan (Land of the Hindi) means India, and "hindi" means turkey, in Turkish. Mısır also means corn and also Egypt in the same language.
dizhn
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Yup. It's pretty ignorant to call India the land of turkeys,while throwing a fit when other countries call yours Turkey.
timeon
on July 12, 2022
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Maybe the bird will be also called türkiye now.
cetinkaya
on July 12, 2022
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Hindistan comes from Hindustan (India in Persian), not from the bird hindi (turkey).
dizhn
on July 14, 2022
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Good to know. But it doesn't matter in the context of this discussion. It still means Land of Turkeys in Turkish. Not really of course, just like Turkey does not mean turkey in English.
walrus01
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And the actual bird, in Iranian Farsi, is a "booghoolamoo", which is roughly the same idea as the gobbling noise a turkey makes.
In Afghan Farsi (Dari) the bird is a "feel murgh" which translates as Elephant Chicken.
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