Turkey rebranding

Turkey will know officially be called Türkiye - after negative connotations of the word - at the United Nations after making a formal request last week.

The new re-branding will see all exported products have the "Made in Türkiye" logo plastered on them, similar to a "Hello Türkiye" tourism scheme which was launched at the beginning of the year. The UN has since come out and said it made the change "as soon as possible" after the country sent of a request last week, the BBC reports. Turkey has decided to change its official name after its negative links to the animal or a "silly person".

Late last year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan requested that all products that are made in and exported from his country have a "Made in Turkiye" seal ...

Turkey asked the U.N. for the name change after last week saying it intends to block Finland and Sweden's inclusion in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO). Turkey has accused the two countries of harboring members of the PKK. Also, last week, Turkey said that it recently discovered anti-tank weapons from Sweden being used by the PKK. Turkey has asked the United Nations (U.N.) to be formally recognized by another name. Turkey objects to the two Nordic countries joining NATO due to their supposed lax attitude towards the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, an organization that is listed as a terrorist group by the United States, the European Union and Turkey. Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the U.N. Secretary General, confirmed to Newsweek that the Turkish Foreign Ministry reached out to the organization earlier this and said that it wanted its name to be referred to in U.N. meetings and documents as Turkiye. Turkey Informs U.N. it is Rebranding to a Name From 99 Years Ago

The country's official name has been Türkiye since it declared independence in 1923. The Turkish government, led by an increasingly authoritarian Recep Tayyip ...

He also called for the slogan “Made in Türkiye” to be used on export products. The letter “Ü” is absent in the nominal Latin alphabet. “The term Türkiye best represents the culture, civilisation and values of the Turkish Nation,” he said in the statement.

Turkey will be known as Türkiye at the United Nations from now on, after it agreed to a formal request from Ankara.

The move has been met with a mixed reaction online. As part of the re-branding, "Made in Türkiye" will feature on all exported products, and in January a tourism campaign was launched with the catch-phrase "Hello Türkiye". It also pointed out the Cambridge English Dictionary's definition of one of the meanings of the word as "something that fails badly" or "a stupid or silly person".

"Türkiye na di best representation and expression of the Turkish pipo culture, civilisation and values." Recep Tayyip Erdogan tok for December. Di UN tok say ...

Dem also point to di Cambridge English Dictionary wey say one of di meanings of Turkey na "something wey fail badly" or "stupid or silly pesin". Dem explain say one of di reasons for di image rebrand na for di association wit di bird. Di UN tok say dem make di change as soon as dem receive di request dis week.

The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December. "The process we started under the leadership of our President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in order to increase ...

Cavusoglu told state-run news agency Anadolu on Wednesday that by working with Turkey's Directorate of Communications, which is affiliated with the President's office, the government had been able to successfully lay the groundwork for the rebrand. It doesn't happen every day but it's not unusual that countries change their names." The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December.

Many international bodies will be asked to make the name change as it is part of a rebranding campaign launched by the Turkish president last year. According to ...

Government officials support the rebranding move, however, some say it is a distraction as the president is preparing for election next year. The United Nations made the change as soon as it received the formal request this week. Turkey will now be known as Türkiye in the United Nations from now on.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's government has been pressing for the internationally recognised name Turkey to be changed to Türkiye (tur-key-YAY) as it is ...

Dujarric told the Washington Post: “It is not uncommon for us to receive such requests.” It was not clear whether the name, with a letter that doesn’t exist in the English alphabet, will catch on widely abroad. Anadolu Agency said Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson to UN secretary general António Guterres, confirmed receipt of the letter from Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, the Turkish foreign minister.