Why is this country named after a bird?

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denyocan

it`s not named after a bird. The word Turkiye does not refer to a bird in any language. The word Turkey is just a result of the English idiocy on the other hand. It has nothing to do with Turks.

Ipek K

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Turkey is not called "Turkey" in Turkish. We call it Turkiye. It's just that the US decided to change the name to Turkey, because it was, I guess, easier to pronounce. This hasn't been the first time they've changed country's names. For example, Italia is Italy and Brasilia is Brazil.

Joannah

It wasn't named after a bird. It's really a shame that it wasn't taught in school at where you're at but if you follow the link they gave you later, you will have an idea. It's only by sheer coincidence that the country originally called in their native tongue "Turkiye" ended up as being misnored as the bird turkey when translated into English by some who don't know much about geography.

I remember teaching this to a group of seven year olds last December. FYI- Do you know that other countries don't call the USA, USA? Take France for example, they call the USA Etats Unis (Do you know in some languages etats means poo?) I'm sure they're laughing their butts off with that, Turkey calls it Amerika Birleşik Devletleri and the Russians refer to it as Соединённые Шта́ты Аме́рики, США.

Hope you catch the drift.

genç türk

And you believe that the country Chad is ruled by some dude called Chad, right?

Cetin

hi Rawanda,
firstly, Welcome to Türkiye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Z2bVuEYUY
please read this article:
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/turkey.htm
i hope ,help you
see you again ,especially,in İstanbul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YAvfxA6a94

Bix

Believe me 'Euthenasia' has nothing to do with the 'Youth in Asia'.

crazygirl158

Umm, it's not named after the bird. The country is named after the people.
P.S. the people are not named after the bird either. It's just a coincidence. Like in turkish, egypt also means corn and Turkey does not mean turkey.

ckayihan

The name of the country is Turkiye and it comes from the Turks who were living in asia, and came to anatolia centuries ago.

fidget

In the English language, the bird is (erronously) called after the country, believing that that was the origin of the bird; in the same way that in Turkish the bird is called "hindi" after the country "Hindistan" (India) believing that the bird came from there. They were both wrong.

lee f

I thought the bird was named after the Country, mate.

Kathryn

it is not named after a bird. We have a bird that is our national bird. There is a difference. Also, every state has a state bird and flower. Our national bird was almost a turkey in honor of thanksgiving!! okay a little edit here. I thought you were talking about the united states.

Kurdish Freedom Fighter

Because it's full of fat chickens

Mohsen T

I've researched on this topic before and i'm glad to be answer this to u too, here it is:
The British people after defeating Ottoman Empire made a lot of countries in the middle east and one of them called Turkey, casue the Turkish soldjers always were running away and get the famous Chicken name called Turkey (Bird name).
then after they name it that mean Tukish peopel are like chickens for the same similarity with chicken bird Turkey.
One of the European someday said that we should name this country to "Donkey" cause they are more like it than chicken.

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