If you look like this before your 50s, you must've had a pretty rough life. I mean colonizing India.

This pretty much explains the issue. However, IMO, çulluk doesn't look like turkey. This is why some linguists believe it wasn't 'çulluk' that was known as Turkey bird, but it was guinea fowls.

similar to Turkey, which is known as 'çulluk' in Turkish. This bird was already famous in Europe as 'turkey bird' because it was coming from Asia minor. Colonialist thought the North American bird was 'çulluk' and continued to call it turkey bird. In Turkish, it's called hindî because it was coming+

As he writes, once Giancarlo Casale asked the famous Turkish linguist Şinasi Tekin about the etymology of turkey. It isn't weird to call a bird with a country's name, but as well known, turkey is endemic North American. If there was no turkey in Turkey, why the bird was named after Turkey?

Thanksgiving is on the way and I'd like to clarify the confusion regarding the name of turkey (bird) and Turkey (country). Turkish government is so sensitive in this topic that they convinced the world to call the country with it's Turkish pronunciation of its name, which is actually an Italian word

Turkish Directorate of Religious Affairs is looking for prospective students who would like to pursue a master's degree in Latin American Studies in countries like Argentina, Colombia, Venezuela, etc.

I recently had a chance to read Omer Awass's 'Fatwa and Making and Renewal of Islamic Law'. Amazing research on the very important institution of fatwa. Various geneological analysis of different fatwas that shows that allows the reader to trace the origins of the institution.