A country full of Eastern promiseWatching the current Euro football championships has served as a reminder that the official name of the country known to most of us as Turkey, is now Turkiye, pronounced "Turkiya". The change was believed to have been made partly to disassociate the country from the large bird of the same name and other negative interpretations of the word "turkey". As a kid I was always vulnerable to the tasty Fry's Turkish Delight, a blob of gel which we were told was "Full of Eastern Promise". It turned out later that the model was anything but "Eastern" and was actually the daughter of a Yorkshire miller from West Riding. I recall walking around Bang Kachao in 1979 with colleague Tony Waltham.

Source: Bangkok Post June 29, 2024 23:38 UTC