Lordo wrote:What's the matter with some pibol here. Are we going to argue about how the Turks got their flag now. Who gives a fuck.
So toilet brush boy thinks that the Turks stole Turkiye from Greeks which used Turkiya for the country. You stupid boy. Before 1923 there was no Turkiye so Greeks could not called it Turkiya. Before than the Ottomans called it Anadolu and I suspect it was called Anatolia and that was even before the Greeks invaded the place. It was Ataturk in 1923 who set up the republic and called it Turkiye and changed the alphabet to latin characters so it was friendlier to the rest of the world.
It is Anatolia, the etymology of that word is from "the East", from Greek!
Turkia in medieval Latin, generally means the land of the Turks. In medieval English, it was Turkye and it is attested in works centuries before 1923.
The Turks were not even in Anatolia at the time. Anadolu is just a Turkish translation.
The Greek name, Tourkia (Τουρκία) was used by the Byzantine (in Anatolia) emperor and scholar Constantine VII in his book De Administrando Imperio, in the 10th Century. Referring to a Turkic state in the Caspian regions.
Where did the Turkye get that word from when there was no Turkiye before 1923? Let that marinade for a bit in that swamp you call a brain.