• nialv7@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    I can’t believe you can just see “TURKEY” in big letters from space just like that. Must have spent a ton of advertising money.

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      2 days ago

      you might not be aware of the various things turks have written on our own mountains/large hills, especially near military bases.

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        2 days ago

        They haven’t even updated it to their preferred spelling of Türkiye!

        Turk here. That is not my preferred spelling, since , you know, exonyms are exonyms, and we sure as fuck did not take any action about Corn or Our “TurkeyLand” (Mısır, Hindistan [Egypt, India])

        Also, it would be fucking hilarious if India ever changes their name to “Bharat” (or variant) since “Baharat” is “spice” in turkish.

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            1 day ago

            The thin skinned shithead tinpot dictator probably heard a dumbass joke and took it waaay too seriously.