The most common reason is wanting to throw off the shackles of colonialism—but other requests have been motivated by brevity
Turkey? The country has had it with bad jokes likening it to an ugly, gobbling bird. The UN has accepted its request to bein English, as it is in Turkish. The country may be unusual in the reason for changing its name, but it is hardly the only one to have done so. Why do countries change names?
This continued well after independence, as leaders sought to put their stamp on countries. Thomas Sankara changed Upper Volta to Burkina Faso in 1984. Joseph-Desiré Mobutu had a thing about names. He changed his own to Mobutu Sese Seko and obliged his countrymen to ditch Christian names, too, under a policy of “authenticity”. He also changed his country’s name from the Republic of Congo to Zaire in 1971.
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