[laszlojamf]

The title just goes to show that

1. the turkish government had reasons for trying to get people to use "Türkiye" instead.

2. It's still not working.

I 100% thought this was about birds until clicking

[embedding-shape]

> I 100% thought this was about birds until clicking

Same, I was really curious reading about the hair transplant industry organized by turkeys and got really disappointed :(

[randunel]

Shouldn't you spell it Tuerkiyesh government, then?

[OkayPhysicist]

Turkish isn't pronounced "Turkey-ish". It's just "turk-ish" as in, "of or relating to the ethnic group the 'Turks'". "Turkiyesh" (Turkish is perfectly phonetic, they don't play games with vowels combining to make all sorts of sounds like English) would be a different thing, being of or related to the country Turkiye.

[stavros]

No, that's not it. The problem is that "How turkey" means a bird, but "How Turkey" means the country.