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The city changed its name to "Eastpointe" after a vote in 1992; the name change had been proposed to reduce its association with the adjacent city of Detroit (a move that offended many Detroit residents), and the "-pointe" is intended to associate the city with the exclusive communities of the Grosse Pointes.
Turkey adopted its official name, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, known in English as the Republic of Turkey or more commonly known as Turkey, upon the declaration of the republic on 29 October 1923. In 2021, however, via the UN, Turkey changed its spelling to Türkiye. At a press briefing on 5 January 2023, a US State Department spokesperson announced that:
Place name changes in Turkey have been undertaken, periodically, in bulk from 1913 to the present by successive Turkish governments. Thousands of names within the Turkish Republic or its predecessor the Ottoman Empire have been changed from their popular or historic alternatives in favour of recognizably Turkish names, as part of Turkification ...
As a gesture of goodwill toward the Thanksgiving bird, the animal activist group asked the small town of under 500 to change its name to PETA Asks Turkey, Texas, to Change Name to 'Tofurkey' Skip ...
Turkey still looks to its NATO membership for "prestige, gravitas and panache," said Sinan Ciddi, a Turkey specialist at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies and a professor at the U.S ...
The hotel traditionally hosts the musicians who come to Turkey for the annual Bob Wills Festival held over several days centered on the last Saturday in April. [5] Turkey city limits. The Bob Wills Museum is located in Turkey, in the old elementary school. [5] A monument at the city limits of Turkey honors Wills.
Goldfish has just announced that it's embracing its more mature, sophisticated side with a fitting new name. As of today, Goldfish will now be known as Chilean Sea Bass crackers.
Izmir would belong there, and so does a number of cities in Turkey. But Izmir most certainly doesn't belong to a list of name changes in Turkey. On the contrary, its name has remained exactly the same in Turkey for a millennium, even without the slightest spelling change.--Orwellianist 09:04, 7 November 2015 (UTC)