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 == Requested Move (revisted) == 

  

 İzmir →  – I'm going to bring this up again because having been in Turkey for awhile, I've noticed that English sources usually distinguish ""ü"" and ""ö"" from their un-umlauted counterparts, and sometimes distinguish ""ş"" and ""ç"" and rarely write the dotless ""i"" in the lower case, but I have never seen ""İzmir"" or ""İstanbul"" except in Turkish sources.  I find an almost definitive list of reliable sources using ""Izmir"" here, and poking around expat forums shows English usage in Turkey is exclusively without the capital ""İ.""  I find examples here and here.  

 If I search for ""Izmir"" and """"Bakirkoy"" on MyMerhaba (the only one of these sites I heard of before googling), I find dotless Izmir and umlauted Bakirköy.  I also find direct evidence of the distinction between umlauted vowels or ş/ç and the dotted ""i"" here, here. And this forum shows the difference in usage between Turks advertising apartments and foreigners seeking them.  Basically, common usage in both reliable sources and in English among people living in Turkey spells it ""Izmir.""  The only people who spell it ""İzmir"" are Turks, and even then they don't always spell it that way when writing in English.   "