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it depends on whether you mean the exact word yoghurt or any somewhat similar but older word

for if you are seeking the modern country where the most ancient even if different form of the word yoghurt first arose

then it is most likely turkey

tho it could also be anywhere else the turkic languages were spoken up to 4500 years ago when yoghurt was discovered

which could possibly mean as far east as Siberia

however

because ultimately it was only in the ottoman balkans that yoghurt came to be pronounced with the hard g sound it now has

& has always had in English since its arrival around 1625

then it might be better to guess one of the slavic countries like Serbia or Croatia than one of the turkic countries

just for that reason

rather than assume the English were necessarily mispronouncing the Turkish word

as some authorities do

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