Sen Türkçe bilmiyorsun? In Turkish, ever since they adopted the Roman alphabet and ditched the Arabic, it was always Türkiye, which is how they pronounce it. They got tired of the jokes about the bird, so they leaned on the UN to change it from the English spelling to the Turkish spelling, which went through in 2022.
I had a small clique of Turkish friends while in college, and they insisted on my learning some of their language. This intensified when I told then I had "met a girl" in Germany. When I told them I would probably be spending more time in Germany (little did I know!), they told me I had to increase my knowledge of Turkish, because I "would need it there." I didn't know what they meant, but I found out soon enough. Fifty years ago, relations between Germans and Turks living here were not as cordial as they are now, and my tiny knowledge of their language opened more doors for me here than I ever imagined possible.
I now know far more Turkish than "Greak," and the film with Travolta didn't help in the slightest 
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