Turkiye, not Turkey: US diplomats agree to switch to new spelling

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, Report informs via TRT World.

"The Turkish embassy did request that we use this spelling in our communications," State Department spokesperson Ned Price said.

"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.

The Pentagon has been writing Turkiye since an August statement on a call between the NATO allies' defence chiefs and the State Department has occasionally used the spelling on social media.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2021 ordered the consistent use of Turkiye in languages that use Latin script.