Some time in the early 1990s, a PR company persuaded the Turkish government that because of the negative associations "turkey" has in American English, they should try to persuade the entire English-speaking world to use the Turkish spelling of the country's name, "Türkiye" (which includes a vowel that doesn't actually exist in English). They spent large amounts of money for several years on posters the rest of the world must have thought were pretty silly (I don't think it's entirely over even now).

The irony is that the Turkish word for "turkey" has an equally confused etymology. Western Europe thought turkeys were Turkish chickens and named them accordingly; the Turks thought they were Indian chickens and called them "hindi". And in modern Turkish that word has the same negative associations as "turkey" does in American English - more or less "bozo". You have to wonder how the Turkish government or TDK (the Turkish Language Foundation) would have reacted to a demand from India that they should start calling the place "Bharat".