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Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.
iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.
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I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It's real
shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.
they can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven't even got Turkiye down yet
I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it "Knib"
"Turkiye" would be fine, but that is not the official English name, it's "Türkiye" which makes absolutely no sense. Maybe we should start referring to Japan as 日本 in English instead too /s
You can write Türkiye as Tuerkiye if you want to stick to 'pure' English. I mean, Latin.