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Here's the reason why Turkey is called Turkey. Well actually the word "Turkey" (country) came from England. The English said it was too hard to pronounce the word Turkiye I mean all you have to say is "turk-ee-air." That's what I hate about those pesky English fools. They think they have the right to say any word their way! Especially if it's with Turkiye! My country I came from! The word is actually Turkiye (Tur-kee-yeah). So that's why Turkiye is called Turkey.

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"They think they have the right to say any word their way! Especially if it's with Turkiye! " Hmmm - is that why you to call my country Avustralya instead of Australia?
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When Europeans first encounters turkeys in North America they were thought to resemble guinea fowl. At the time, Guinea fowl were called turkey fowl because they had been imported to Central Europe by Turkish traders.

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The country is called Turkey because it's home to the Turks.

When European settlers arrived in America, they encountered turkeys, which they mistook for being a guineaufowl. The guineafowl was also called the "turkey fowl" because it was imported into Western Europe regularly from Turkey. In the end, the American bird became known as the turkey, while the guineafowl kepts its name.

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10y ago

The fact that the word "turkey" refers to both a country (Turkey) and a bird (turkey) in English is completely incidental. Turkey was not named after turkeys or vice versa. Turkey is just the English version of the Turkish name Türkiye, literally meaning: Land of the Türk people.

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9y ago

actually you dont call Turkey the country as turkey the animal. you call the animal as Turkey. because the first turkey(hindi animal) comes from the country Turkey. lots of turkeys huh.

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Turkeys are called turkeys because the Turks, a Muslim group, discovered them

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Not correct.

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12y ago

Because they are called Turks so they put Turks first then add ey (turk-ey) but in Turkish it is spelled Turkiye (Turk-i-yeah)

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The first merchants to market turkey birds came from Algeria, which was then part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. As they seem to come from "Turkey", they were given that name.

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It is related and unrelated to the turkey bird - madeinturkeytours. com/turkey/

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