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Russian language is as much a part of Ukraine as Ukranian is. You won't see many in the media calling it Kyiv before Ukraine turned nationalist under Poroshenko (hexbear.net)
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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"Turkiye" would be fine, but that is not the official English name, it's "Türkiye" which makes absolutely no sense. Maybe we should start referring to Japan as 日本 in English instead too /s

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No seriously it seems insane to officially change the English name and make a big stink about it but use a letter that isn’t in the English alphabet? Just skip the umlaut wtf are you doing

[–] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Not to mention it's nationalist BS driven by Erdogan as a popularity stunt

[–] theturtlemoves@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

You can write Türkiye as Tuerkiye if you want to stick to 'pure' English. I mean, Latin.

[–] buckykat@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Calling Japan 日本 in English but pronouncing it Rìběn