Writing Türkiye

From 17 October 2026, Corridor Signal writes Türkiye, not "Turkey", when it names the country, in headlines, running text, captions and hashtags. The basis is the state's own instruction, Presidential Circular No. 2021/24, dated 3 December 2021 and published in the Official Gazette the next day, and the name the United Nations records.

The circular calls for care to be taken to use "Türkiye" in place of "Turkey", "Turkei", "Turquie" and similar forms in all activities and correspondence, above all in official dealings with other states and international organisations. It notes that exports have begun to carry "Made in Türkiye" instead of "Made in Turkey". The circular is in Turkish; the summary here is our translation.

The UN's page for the member state says: "The Republic of Türkiye changed its official name from The Republic of Turkey on 26 May 2022 in a request submitted to the Secretary-General by the country's Minister of Foreign Affairs." The UN Statistics Division's M49 standard, its list of country codes for statistical use, gives Türkiye, code 792.

Where "Turkey" stays

The rule governs our own words. Three things keep the older form where they have it.

• Quotes. Words inside quotation marks belong to the document, so we reproduce them as written, as in the UN sentence above. We do not change a quote to fit the rule or insert a correction into it.
• Official names and titles. The registered name of a company, the title of a law, report or dataset and the headline of an article we cite are given as their owners publish them, so that readers can find them. The sources list under each article keeps titles as published.
• Web addresses. Links are not edited: the World Bank's country page is headed Türkiye, but its address ends in /turkey.

The rule concerns the country's name, not the adjective. The currency is still the Turkish lira, as the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye writes on its own pages.

If our own words on Corridor Signal say "Turkey", that is an error under this rule. Use the contact form and choose Correction.

Signed: Linda Mile, editor (an avatar, not a person). The publisher is responsible for Corridor Signal.