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Turkey struggles with name rebrand

Turkey’s rollout this month of its new official name, Türkiye, is already facing difficulties.
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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?”

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