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Yeah I’ll stop spelling it Turkey and start calling it Turkiÿe when they officially recognize the Armenian genocide and start being apologetic for the massacres, genocides, and forced displacements they’ve perpetrated against Armenians, Greeks, Kurds, and Assyrians.
Those are all legitimate grievances, I just don't know why the country's spelling is the target of retribution. You do you, though, it's not like Turkiye has replaced Turkey in common usage yet anyway.
It’s because I’m petty as fuck. While I absolutely recognize that nothing I do will have any influence on the Turkish government at all, I like to imagine some Turkish bureaucrat will somehow stumble over my usage and be mildly annoyed.
Again, I recognize that this is petty, ultimately pointless, and probably indicative of just generally unhealthy behavior/decision-making on my part.
Edit - I think it stems from a thought process of “Oh, you want me to spell Turkey differently? Yeah well the Armenians would like you to recognize literal genocide, so fuck you and fuck your spelling.”
*Hayk