A guide to renamed cities
Some reasons for changing place-names are better than others
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN has had enough of bad puns that conflate Turkey, the country he has governed for two decades, with the ugly bird served for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Convinced that his power extends to the English language, late last year Mr Erdogan decreed that his country would henceforth be known to the rest of the world as Türkiye, as it is in Turkish. It plans to register with the United Nations under the new name. State institutions have begun using it already.
This article appeared in the Culture section of the print edition under the headline “A guide to renamed cities”
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