>Out of curiosity, is turkey a commonly eaten food in Turkey? I am not being entirely flippant. My understanding is there are a half dozen or so varieties of turkey in the U.S. and none of them originated in Turkey.

We don't eat turkey so much. We prefer chicken...

Do you curious about why Turkey and turkey has some name? :))

Turkey is an America origined animal. When they came America they see the that type of chicken and they compared it a chicken type which can be found in Turkey, so it's named as turkey (At least I know like that, it's history whoever know the truth...).

Corn is America origined too. We calls Egypt and Corn as same name as "Misir". Because corn had came Turkey from Egypt's merchants after America founded.

We calls India as Hindistan and it actually mean in turkish "Turkey Country". I don't know why it's name like that...

Our government tried Turkey's english name change like as Turkey's turkish name "Turkiye" but not success...

It's not a big issue... :)

But when England beat us at football matches english newspapers writes "We fried turkey" . It make us angry Terry... Next time we will fry you...:)