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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:
Present-day Turkey has been inhabited by modern humans since the late Paleolithic period and contains some of the world's oldest Neolithic sites. [3] [4] Göbekli Tepe is close to 12,000 years old. [3] Parts of Anatolia include the Fertile Crescent, an origin of agriculture. [5]
In December, COVID-19 cases in Turkey surpassed 1 million due to adding asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic cases that were previously not included in their official statistics. [87] In July 2022, the Turkish government asked the international community to recognise Turkey by its Turkish name Türkiye, preventing from confusion with Turkey (bird).
In 1928, the Turkish alphabet was changed from the Arabic to the Latin script. Beginning in 1930, Turkey officially requested that other countries use Turkish names for Turkish cities, instead of other transliterations to Latin script that had been used in the Ottoman times. [33] In English, the name is usually written "Istanbul".
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 clock system used by the contemporary world was accepted instead of the Turkish 'sunset clock'. With the time scale taken from the West, one day was divided into 24 hours and daily life was organized accordingly. [50] With a change made in 1928, international figures were adopted.
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.
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 ...