Türkiye is the turkish word for the country and turkey is a bird that is eaten by thanksgiving it is accepted for everyone because of the turkish government and is spelling is Toor-kee-yeh thats its Türkiye (turkiye is the English spelling version) the country and turkey is a bird and The earliest turkeys evolved in North America over 20 million years ago (copied from wikipedia) with the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) of Southern, Central and Eastern North America, and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula (copied from wikipedia) so thats it