2006-12-23 10:02:25 · 11 answers · asked by edd 3 in Travel ➔ Europe (Continental) ➔ Turkey
You can say either Turks or Turkish people who live in the Anatolia almost for a thousand of years. The ancient name of Turks was Türük. And Türüks came from Middle Asia originally. It is considered by some of boffins that even people who went to America first might be Türüks. Turk was one of the oldest and purest race in the world. Anyways..lets back to the topic..By time the name became Türk. Turks had a lot of states in Anatolia which named as Gokturk , Selcuklular or Ottoman Empire etc. Today ,since October 29th, 1923 , the country is known as Turkish Republic-Türkiye which is Turkish country and Türkiye sounds like Turkey in english. And marcus035. is correct about his saying that english people saw the "meleagris gallopavo" bird in Turkey at first. So they called the bird as turkey.
2006-12-24 11:48:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is an intelligent and thought full explanation -- contrary to the insult-like answer given by one of your answerer. Turkey/La Turquie/Turkiye --are the proud nation's name. No relationship of close or distant to the bird. Why, rumours account that when the bird -- appeared in north America -- people thought for good or wrong reasons, it came from far away lands -- as far away as India -- or even Turkey -- that is one explanation -- since those lands were in fact very far away. But stay away from making a joke about it -- in and around Montreal -- we have locality called "Lachine" literally translated it would mean "China" -- here again people thought of the place very, very far away and gave it such an "odd" name and yes, the name stuck. Same with your own question. Hope it helps.
2006-12-24 15:21:40 · answer #2 · answered by s t 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The name of Turkey is Türkiye in Turkish. So it's only like that in the English language.
2006-12-24 00:24:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Europeans mistook the New World bird for a type of guinea fowl which had become associated with the nation of Turkey, which had exported it to Europe. The bird was actually native to Africa.
2006-12-23 18:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by Nicole B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently the bird we know as the turkey is so called because it was first brought to England by turkish merchants, so it became known as the turkey-****.
In most other languages it is known as the "Indian" (in French, "l'Inde", etc.).
2006-12-23 18:07:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They have the same name only in English. It's Türkiye in Turksh which means the land of Turks.
And I don't know why it's such a big issue for English speakers. I mean we have the same name for the country Egypt and "corn" and I've never seen a Turk who made jokes about it. I find it extremely stupid, really.
2006-12-23 18:10:12 · answer #6 · answered by Earthling 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
They only have the same name in English.
2006-12-23 18:07:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are not related. The British were unable to pronounce "Turkiye" so the called it Turker instead...
2006-12-24 16:56:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
theyre not related. idk where the word turkey came from, but the name of the country came from the founder, Ataturk, i think
2006-12-23 23:19:03 · answer #9 · answered by Angel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
just in english it is same...
2006-12-24 21:22:27 · answer #10 · answered by Ceren C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋