Erdogan wants people to call Turkey "Türkiye" even in English and other languages

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lol, not a chance

That'll go about as well as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' similar effort.

Why? You don't call Istanbul Constantinople anymore.

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lol, not a chance

That'll go about as well as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' similar effort.

Why? You don't call Istanbul Constantinople anymore.

It would be cool if we could.

You can, that's the point, but I'm pretty sure you don't, because everyone will look at you funny.

Someone mentioned Czechia, that's another great example. It always used to be Czech Republic, calling it Czechia is a relatively new thing.

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One of the great unresolved challenges of human language will always be translating proper nouns.  

If the current fashion of preferring local spelling/pronunciation is taken to its logical conclusion, then there is no reason "Beijing" won't be printed as 北京 in the English-language newspapers of tomorrow.  

No, that is what Pinyin is for.

But the Pinyin equivalent of this already happened, after all you call the city by its modern standard Mandarin 'Beijing' rather than the archaic 'Peking'.

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To be fair I think the duck has more important things to worry about than what you call it.