Is the bird to do with the country or vice versa?
2006-10-26 03:14:50 · 17 answers · asked by Philp Swallow 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Ethnic Cuisine
Turks are from Turkey.
Turkeys are birds.
2006-10-26 03:16:43 · answer #1 · answered by puck_in_ms 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually turkeys are native Americans, being widspread over Mexico, the Southwest, and the Eastern States. Wild turkeys are ok but tend to be tough as they are active birds, and very wary. Some Game Commissions have restocked turkeys and they are multiply in some areas of the northeast. In Europe, they are replaced by another large bird called the Bustard, and in Asia and many of the island groups by the pheasant. The ring-neck pheasant is native to China, the trygopans in the Islands, The Kalij pheasant is found in Northern India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Thailand and one of the rarest is the Palawan pheasant of Palawan Island in the Philippines. The relationship between the names is accidental, Turkey was part of the Ottoman Empire. Benjamin Franklin suggested using the turkey as the national symbol of the US instead of the eagle.
2006-10-26 10:30:05 · answer #2 · answered by Frank 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turkeys are birds which are indigenous to the continent of North America.
Who knows who named the nation of Turkey. It was Byzantiium at one time.
2006-10-30 00:14:39 · answer #3 · answered by soxrcat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a dumb question! Of course they are from Turkey? Do you actually KNOW what the odds are that two completely different things like a piece of native American poultry and an historical Muslim nation half way around the world could actually randomly be named the SAME thing? Its 81,682,461 to ONE!
Simple COMMON SENCE and statistical mathematics tells us that they MUST be related!!!!
Obviously turkeys ARE from Turkey!!
2006-10-30 02:33:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turkeys are native to North America
2006-10-26 12:42:42 · answer #5 · answered by muckrake 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i hink what happened was in the old days when people entered Turkey the country the people ran away similar to the bird and thats why they called the bird Turkey.
I think Turkey used to be called constaninople. and then changed it to the same as the bird because Ataturk liked turkey. He was a big shot in the old days
2006-10-26 10:17:48 · answer #6 · answered by SunGod 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No turkeys originate from north America..
2006-10-26 10:24:25 · answer #7 · answered by robert x 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe Turkey the bird is originally from the Americas and the natives domesticated them and the explorers brought them back home with them.
2006-10-26 10:24:16 · answer #8 · answered by Doreen R 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No they're from Mexico. Or India. But not Turkey.
2006-10-26 15:49:51 · answer #9 · answered by howlettlogan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You Turkey you.... Good question! Never really thought about it but I doubt it.
2006-10-28 00:34:25 · answer #10 · answered by tbear 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
turkey has the most turkeys everyone i talk to in turky are eating on a turkey
2006-10-26 10:22:06 · answer #11 · answered by nitabooj 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋