Turkey is being their contrarian self, yet again.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2024
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BRICS members India and China famously get along just fine
Brics is basically the "we don't like the west!" club of countries that think they're entitled to being great powers for.... basically just cause.
Brazil is basically just trying to manifest being a fully developed industrial economy, Russia is clinging to the dying scraps of being the second great power, India has all the potential, manpower, and material but is currently hanging itself with a nationalist noose in terms of being able to so business with anyone besides maybe Surinam, China tries to act like they're not bothered by having to do work to achieve international standing but VERY OBVIOUSLY resent that the world hasn't just reverted to the pre-age-of-colonialism status quo of China being the top of the world in terms of trade, and South Africa has apparently collapsed five times since 2020 alone with how many headlines you hear about it.
Turkiye is the proper name btw. They formally requested people start using their name correctly.
They did or Erdogan did?
Because this reeks of useless nationalism.
Eh, lots of countries have different names in other languages. In English, we call it "Germany," not Deutschland. In Spanish, it's "Los Estados Unidos," not the United States. In English it's "Wales," but in Welsh it's Cymru. Just 3 of hundreds of examples
They asked for being written Turkiye especially in English. In Deutschland we can go on calling their country TΓΌrkei because out turkey is called Truthahn.
I have no opinion on this, but maybe it just takes more time. I don't hear anyone calling Chinas capital 'Peking' anymore, only Bejing, but that didn't happen instantly either.
I do. That's the correct name/spelling in Swedish.
Sorry, I didn't make that clear, I meant in Germany, as the commenter talked about the German translation of turkey.