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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Sean McPolin

Turkey rebrands and officially changes its name due to negative meaning

Turkey has decided to change its official name after its negative links to the animal or a "silly person".

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

The rebrand comes partly because the word is commonly associated with the bird usually eaten at Christmas or Thanksgiving.

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