It was a whole big thing in the news and on reddit. And if you spelled it the old way, umlauts or not, then you were seen as the asshole. Everybody played along, out of respect or whatever.

This is not something near and dear to my heart. The last time I even mentioned Turkiye, outside the context of a sandwich, was when they made a fuss about it. It was some shit that everybody else (journalists and publications specifically) had been doing right up until recently. I'm just curious why they reverted back.

It's always been Turkiye there but in 2021 Erdogan launched a rebranding campaign and basically told everybody else to spell it right. So we all did. But then we just quit when they had earthquakes?

I don't think they're the ones putting out articles in English-speaking newspapers

Over the last 2 weeks I have not seen 1 article with Turkey spelled Turkiye, like they decided to change it a couple years ago.

Wassup with that?

Edit because some of y'all need some context to suit your short-term memory loss: On 4 December 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued a presidential circular calling for exports to be labelled "Made in Türkiye". The circular also said that in relation to other governmental communications "necessary sensitivity will be shown on the use of the phrase 'Türkiye' instead of phrases such as 'Turkey,'

Anybody else wanna do some fictional shit in real life?

I'm thinking about hiking to Mordor with my homie Roland to slay the Grendel.

And those binoculars that they gave away on every episode of Double Dare?

Edit: Nope. Different Bushnell family.