Turkish Airlines Turkish Airlines to be renamed: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip want's to rename the airline with Türkiye Hava Yolları as this is a plan of the country to be known as Türkiye. The carrier has been known as Türkiye Hava Yolları domestically since it had been formed in 1933. Turkish Airlines at Istanbul Airport The Turkish goverment owns 49% stake where as the 51% is publicly traded. Howeover the president said that the carrier will go under it's local name and they have plan to repaint all of their aircraft's, also the President said "We have taken a symbolic step by changing Turkey's name in the international sphere to 'Türkiye'. From now on the fuselage of our planes will be marked not as Turkish Airlines but as Türkiye Hava Yollari." Turkish Airlines being repainted Over 300 aircrafts to be repainted: If the carrier will be changing it's name across it's fleet, over 300 aircrafts would be needing a repaint. Accord