There are 195 countries in the world today.As mentioned in ( https://www.worldometers.info/geography/how-many-countries-are-there-in-the-...) About Today's Topics:. T?rkiye (Jonathan Leffler); My own comment is  to be written as" Republic of Turkiye (Turkiye) " Thank Nadir Altinbas e:nadiraltinbas@yahoo.com n.altinbas On Sunday, January 8, 2023 at 03:00:07 PM GMT+3, tz-request@iana.org <tz-request@iana.org> wrote: Send tz mailing list submissions to     tz@iana.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit     https://mm.icann.org/mailman/listinfo/tz or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to     tz-request@iana.org You can reach the person managing the list at     tz-owner@iana.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of tz digest..." Today's Topics:   1. T?rkiye (Jonathan Leffler) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2023 21:47:15 -0700 From: Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com> To: Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org> Subject: [tz] T?rkiye Message-ID:     <CAH+RLGEKNgZK4c9e4rdO6nmU-tMHnZ3+cXMV9=6LVaJ7VvDAJg@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

From the Los Angeles Times, 2023-01-05 (summary from an email dated 2023-01-06):

Ceding to a longstanding Turkish demand, the State Department on Thursday

agreed to begin spelling the country?s name in Turkish <https://click.email.latimes.com/?qs=fff6b852d8f4b17927eabd337816fdb1705edee3...> in its official documents. Turkey will now be referred to as ?T?rkiye,? Wilkinson reported.

https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-01-05/state-department-will-now-... -- Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler@gmail.com>  #include <disclaimer.h> Guardian of DBD::Informix - v2018.1031 - http://dbi.perl.org "Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves, for we shall never cease to be amused."