UN Changes Turkey’s Name To Türkiye

The United Nations has changed the Republic of the country Turkey to Türkiye at the organisation following a request from Turkey for the change.

On Thursday, Aljazeera reports that according to UN spokesman Stephane Dujarri, a letter was received on Wednesday from the Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu and addressed to the Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, requesting the use of Türkiye instead of Turkey for all its affairs.

The spokesman added that the change became effective from the moment the letter was received.

The letter sent to the UN reads; “Together with our Directorate of Communications, we have been successful in preparing a good ground for this.

“We have made it possible for the UN and other international organisations, countries to see this change to using ‘Türkiye’."

Turkey began the move to change the name to Türkiye in December after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan released a memorandum and asked the public to use Türkiye to describe the country in every language.