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

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I'm not typing that umlaut.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

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.   

Actually, that's how you spell an old name for the former capital of Japan. Get it right, smh.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Irrespective of what one thinks of Erdogan, this is a hard request to oblige. I'm not typing umlauts. Maybe I'll do Turkiye if I get in the habit, but that's without umlauts.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

To be fair, it would be really cool if people started calling every country by how it’s called domestically.

Not all countries have a single native name though as more than one language is spoken there. Should Ireland be Ireland (English) or Éire (Irish)? Should Finland be Suomi (Finnish) or Finland (Swedish)? Should Switzerland be Schweiz (German), Suisse (French), Svizzera (Italian)?  

Exonyms are perfectly acceptable, and are far from inherently worse. Difference in what places are called across languages is a reflection of how diverse we are as a species.