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Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.
iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.
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I still call it Kiev because all the TV people switching words on a dime freaked me out. It's real
shit when the entire media class just decides for geopolitical reasons the geographic name for a place everyone was used to using isn't usable anymore.
unprovokedfullscaleinvasionthey can do this one instantly, but scores of media outlets either took forever or haven't even got Turkiye down yet
I still think a funny bit is just pretending to not accept the Cyrillic alphabet and calling it "Knib"
Tbh turkiye kinda weirds me out. I have never heard anyone complaon about it before.