My understanding was that:
Türk => I person from Turkey or the Turkish way of doing things
Türkiye => The country of Turkey
Türkçe => The Turkish language

But in this thread Erdinç has used the word Türkia - what does this mean exactly?

maybe this is smt about italiano. you know italians say "turchia"

(not sure)

Hi Bod,
In that thread I haven't written 'Türkia' but I wrote 'Turkia', without any Turkish characters.

'Turkia' is the English equalent to Türkiye.

You might say, "wait a minute, we already have a word for 'Türkiye' which is 'Turkey'." Yes, I know but its not a good word, is it?

I think Turkia is a good alternative to Turkey. It already exists in some languages, it sounds good and probably it is easy to pronounce for native English speakers and when it is pronounced by natives it sounds smillar to Türkiye. Obviously in English we can't use Türkiye since it has Turkish characters and Turkiye (with u) is not very good according English sound harmony.

I'm using it everywhere on every occasion. I think when enough people prefer that word the existing word will be officially replaced. Well, let's hope so.

Turkia sounds so much more beautiful than Turkey! (especially the English pronunciation..)

Too nice idea Erdinc! In greek language we call Turkia! I do like this word. The tone is on i.

In Russian we call Turcia - Турция as "ts". I do not why. It is very close to Turkia and it is much better than Turkey.

my grandma had lots of turkeys
why the hell no one(linguists and other wise heads) came to the idea to change it from turkey to turkia? i had this idea since i learnt americans have turkeys on their xmass table.
turkia indeed sounds more beautiful than turkey.