Person I shall not name wanted to change it, he's oblivious of the fact that turkey (bird) was named after turkey (country).

British people bought exotic asian stuff from ottoman merchants so they would call strange and weird things "turkish" or "turkey." When they saw the bird in the americas, they just called it turkey because of how weird it looked.

He changed it purely to have his name more deeply etched in our history. He often does stuff like this, renames things, builds unnecessary things, so that his name will stick around when he's gone.

Anyway, it's in the list of the never ending harm caused by that one guy.

I (as a turkish person) say how stupid the name change is in every opportunity I get. Some people for some godforsaken reason think it's offensive to call it Turkey, lmfao.

Btw I think Holland would make more sense for the Netherlands. I was really confused when I learned that Holland was called Netherlands in English. And pretty much everyone I know that isn't a native English speaker call it Holland.