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Conservatives in Turkey had claimed the charter damaged family unity and encouraged divorce, and that its references to equality were being used by the LGBT community to gain broader acceptance in society.

Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, one of Erdoğan’s main rivals, tweeted that the decision “tramples on the struggle that women have been waging for years”.

Gökçe Gökçen, deputy chair of the main opposition CHP party, said abandoning the treaty meant “keeping women second-class citizens and letting them be killed”.

“Despite you and your evil, we will stay alive and bring back the convention,” she said on Twitter.

Whether by design or by oversight, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Union’s executive arm, was left awkwardly standing as her colleague Charles Michel, the president of the council representing the bloc’s 27 members, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey took the only two available seats between the E.U. and Turkish flags.

“Uhm …” Ms. von der Leyen was heard saying in a video as she stood, lingering, in the grand room in the Turkish presidential palace on Tuesday while Mr. Michel and Mr. Erdogan settled in their gilded seats, perfectly centered for a photo op. Still standing, she raised a questioning hand.

She ended up propped up by cushions on a side sofa several feet away, and lower than the two men. Adding further insult to the faux pas, her position was mirrored on the other side of the room by Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, whom she outranks. Ms. von der Leyen, who is president of the European Commission, and Mr. Michel, who heads the European Council, are of equal rank in the E.U. hierarchy.

“There’s a reason why protocol arrangements exist: to try to take the element of atmospherics and drama out of the equation,” said Ian Lesser, the director of the German Marshall Fund in Brussels. “These things are not supposed to happen.”

Volkonski wrote: ↑Wed Apr 07, 2021 1:01 pm EU should adopt Volkonski's "Modest Proposal"!

The Associated Press
@AP
U.S. officials say President Joe Biden is preparing to formally acknowledge that the systematic killing and deportation of hundreds of thousands of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in modern-day Turkey more than a century ago was genocide.

Helen Kennedy
@HelenKennedy
This is going to make Turkey crazy. Given the last few years, I’m okay with that.

jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:20 pm Biden seems have taken care never to say "Turkey" or "Turks" in his statement. He refers to a "Ottoman-era genocide," and mentions "Constantinople," rather than "Istanbul."
Istanbul Not Constantinople

Volkonski wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:28 pm

jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 2:20 pm Biden seems have taken care never to say "Turkey" or "Turks" in his statement. He refers to a "Ottoman-era genocide," and mentions "Constantinople," rather than "Istanbul."
Istanbul Not Constantinople

The name was officially changed to Istanbul in 1930. When the genocide occurred it was still Constantinople.

U.S. President Joe Biden's declaration that massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire constituted genocide is "simply outrageous" and Turkey will respond over coming months, Turkey's presidential spokesman said on Sunday.

George Papadopoulos @GeorgePapa19 wrote: While Russia attacks Ukraine, Turkey is now conducting mock air attacks against fellow NATO member Greece in the Aegean Sea

Turkish fighter jets fly over Greek islets
24.02.2022 • 11:02

A pair of Turkish F-16 jets flew over the islets of Anthropofagi and Makronisi in the eastern Aegean on Thursday morning at 20,000 feet.

Three minutes after 10 a.m., a second pair of fighter jets flew over the sea islets at 11,000 feet.

The US state department has said it will largely stop writing the word Turkey and instead call the country Türkiye, agreeing to a request by the Turkish government, which resents the inadvertent association with poultry.

In a statement announcing measures to disrupt financiers of the Islamic State group, the state department wrote of joint action between “the United States and Türkiye”, written with an umlaut over the u.

“The Turkish embassy did request that we use this spelling in our communications,” state department spokesman Ned Price said.
Turkish diplomat Ayse Inanc behind the new Türkiye nameplate at the United Nations.
Turkey officially changes name at UN to Türkiye
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“The department will use the spelling that you saw today in most of our formal diplomatic and bilateral contexts, including in public communications,” he said.

But he said “Turkey” was not forbidden when “in furtherance of broader public understanding” as it is “more widely understood by the American public”.

... agreeing to a request by the Turkish government, which resents the inadvertent association with poultry.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:55 am My Kindle doesn't give me an accent mark for French much less an umlaut for Turkiye.

MN-Skeptic wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 3:42 pm

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Jan 07, 2023 10:55 am My Kindle doesn't give me an accent mark for French much less an umlaut for Turkiye.

On an iPad, you hold down the u key for a moment and five different u's with various markings appear for you to select from. Does the Kindle do the same thing?