Turkeye is a village of Sluis

Sluis

Sluis is the name of both a municipality and a town located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands....

, a municipality

Municipality

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 located in the west of Zeelandic Flanders, in the south-western part of the Netherlands

Netherlands

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. Even though the inhabitants of the village are Dutch, the name Turkeye means Turkiye (Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

 in Turkish

Turkish language

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). It derives from relations between the Ottoman Turkey and the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

. Its coordinates are 51°19′N 3°35′E. The name of the road to this village is Turkijeweg which means Turkeyway in Dutch

Dutch language

Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...

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