Türkiye, not Turkey: US diplomats agree to spelling change

State department says it will stop writing the word Turkey and use preferred spelling of Turkiye in public communications

The US state department has said it will largely stop writing the word Turkey and instead call the country Turkiye, agreeing to a request by the Turkish government, which resents the inadvertent association with poultry.

In a statement announcing measures to disrupt financiers of the Islamic State group, the state department wrote of joint action between the United States and Turkiye", written with an umlaut over the u.