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.

Yeah, it's quite silly to think of this tasteful bird when you're talking about Turkey

Turkia is a nice replacement for Turkey! Great idea!

Its great Kadir!!!! But there is no greek written (( Turkey in Greek language is such a beautiful word

when i saw turkey (the bird) on display at counters... it reminds me that there's a country call Turkey exists! On the other hand... Turkia sounds not bad either. But before any new names confirm, let it be great name that reflects the identity of it's people and culture.

yeah maybe TURKIA does sound more better, but surely when we are speaking english the word TURKEY should be used (even if it does have another meaning),
when we are speaking turkish, TÃœRKİYE should be used...

doesnt that make sense??

Well, I think if you are Turkish and have no problem with the word Turkey then you can just continue using it. I have a problem with that word and I'm not using it. I don't find it funny that a silly animal and my country have the same name. Sooner or later we will get that word officially changed.

erdinc,
thank u for explaining it for scalpboy !

Well my friends, I only can say that I love the sound of your country’s name in mine “Turquía”. I am from Venezuela...

I completely agree with erdinc and I think Turkia sounds beautiful.. It's very annoying when I say I love Turkey and people think I am talking about a bird. Ugh. Also, I firmly believe it is implicitly used by some to evoke in people's minds associations with a squawking, helpless-acting animal, fit for not much but being eaten.

Turkia is so much nicer. It is used in Arabic too..

For ten months I'm using this word on these boards patiently and insistently and sometimes I felt like a person who speaks a foreign language that nobody understands but recetly I saw others using it as well and it was nice to see this.

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Crap. I hit 'send' twice.

Played well? The only thing they did was drop themselves to get a penalty or free kick.. if that's what you call playing well :-/