US State Department says it will largely stop writing the word Turkey and instead call the country Türkiye, after Ankara's request 'that we use this spelling in our communications'
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2021 ordered the consistent use of Türkiye in languages that use Latin script.
In a statement on Thursday announcing measures to disrupt financiers of Daesh, the State Department wrote of joint action between "the United States and Türkiye," written with an umlaut over the letter u. "The Department will use the spelling that you saw today in most of our formal diplomatic and bilateral contexts, including in public communications," he said.
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