Yeah I read, just interesting for non-english cultures sounds very different.

It was invented by a Hungarian to impress an Austrian. The Turk portion of the name is from the original Hungarian. It toured Europe for 80+ years. I have no clue what about this you think has anything to do with English culture.

No, it doesn't, Turk is what we call Turkish people too.

That’s nothing. In American English, calling someone a turkey would be an insult. Turkey is how we refer to the nation Türkiye Cumhuriyeti. Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird that we ritually consume every November. Almost as bad as giving Michael Jordan his own seat at the UN. But that’s what capitalism and the US hegemony have brought us.

> Imagine calling an entire nation an ungainly bird

The bird was named after the country. And the country after the ethnic groups who spoke the Turkic languages, which derive from the native term Türk, which goes back at least 1400 years. Changing the spelling and pronunciation changes nothing.

Saying that we called the country after the bird is buying into populist rabble-rousing without doing even five minutes of fact checking.

I think Alastair Graham's work on Michael Jordan's outsize influence at the UN should be accounted for. You've failed to do that.

There's an interesting story behind the name: https://www.etymonline.com/word/Turkey