Both Turkey and Türkiye are acceptable spellings for the country whose capital is Ankara. The country has historically been known as Turkey in English, but in the early 2020s the Turkish government began encouraging the international use of Türkiye, the Turkish name of the country, in order to rebrand it and distance it from the bird of the same name. The United Nations adopted Türkiye as its preferred name in 2022, after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu requested the change in an official letter. The U.S. State Department followed suit a year later and a number of English-language organizations and outlets have since made the change. Others continue to use the term Turkey due to its wider recognition within the English-speaking world.
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