Turkey struggles with name rebrand
Turkey’s rollout this month of its new official name, Türkiye, is already facing difficulties.
“You mean Türkiye, right?” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu playfully corrected a journalist who asked him whether “Turkey” would lift its veto from the NATO accession of Sweden and Finland.
“Yes, of course,” replied the journalist, momentarily taken aback. “Should I repeat the question?”