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Turkish State Renaming Policies

The Turkish state's regional names and policies have sought to subsume or erase older toponyms.

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Jan 28, 2026
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Anatolia is the territory of turkey without Kurdistan

The claim that “ is the territory of without ” oversimplifies overlapping historical, geographic and political terms: Anatolia () is a conventional geographic peninsula largely forming the Asian part ...

Feb 4, 2026

are turks known for their racism

has documented and widely studied problems of xenophobia, ethnic and religious discrimination, and what scholars call “” that target , , , , , and other non‑Turkish or non‑Sunni groups . At the same t...