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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the country would no longer be called Turkey, as the name was no longer the "best way" to represent the culture and values of the people.

Erdogan released a statement on Dec. 3 announcing that the country would be renamed "Turkiye" instead of Turkey, TRT World News reported. The term Turkiye will be used on exported products and brands and for activities and correspondence.

"The phase Turkiye represents and expresses the culture, civilization and values of the Turkish nation in the best way, " Erdogan's statement said.

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Turkish Communications Director Fahrettin Altun posted a tweet in which he highlighted the name change as "another important step" that will "strengthen the Turkish brand."

"As part of this, the phrase 'Made in Turkiye' instead of 'Made in Turkey' began to be used in our export products," the statement says. "As a result, our products, which are the pride of our country in international trade, are promoted and presented to the rest of the world using the 'Turkiye' branding."

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"Our aim is now to represent our state and nation's thousand of years of experience in every sector under the 'Turkiye' brand," Erdogan said in the statement.

The Turkish name for the country is "Turkiye," according to the outlet. This name was taken after independence from Western occupation was earned in 1923. Several names have been used, but Turkey was used and adopted by many.

It was suggested in a Twitter post by a Turkish social media influencer that "Turkey had decided to change the name of their country from Turkey to Turkiye to avoid confusion with the name of the turkey bird of the same name."

This reason was also supported and explained by TRT World on Dec. 13. The outlet said that if you search the word "turkey" in the Google search engine, you will receive a multitude of results, including the turkey bird, commonly used for Thanksgiving dinners.

Turkiye is not the first country to go through a rebrand. The Netherlands announced in 2019 that it would drop the name "Holland." Also in 2019, Macedonia voted to change the country's name to the "Republic of North Macedonia," the New York Times reported.

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