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

[ingemann]

I'm of the view that whether a name change will go through will depend on several factors

1: The importance of your country, ironic the less people give a f**k about you, the easier it is to get a name change through.
2: How easy is the new name to say.
3: How legitimate is your government, no one will care about the name change if they expect you to be gone in the new future.
4: Is it a return to an earlier name?
5: How big a a** is you about the name change?

As for the name change to Tyrkije (y can be used instead of ü and j can be used a consonant version of y). I doubt anyone will adopt the new name; at most it will be a name used in official papers, but I doubt even public owned medias will make use of it. The name change is seen as idiocy by increasing deranged and illegitimate Turkish leader.

[ingemann]

Story Czechias out.

The main difference is that the Czech Republic is a terrible name because it makes it impossible to talk about the pre-1992 history of the country without using Bohemia or Western Czechoslovakia instead. The adopting of the informal Czechia makes it possible to talk about historical Czech states without seeing it the context of a semi-German identity.

[ingemann]

As for the name change to Tyrkije (y can be used instead of ü and j can be used a consonant version of y).

Not in Turkish! That would be read as [tjɾkiʒe] or something which isn't even a valid sequence of sounds in Turkish. Or in the vast majority of the word's languages, including English, though you could maybe anglicize it to [tjɚkiʒeɪ] "tjerk-eezhay" or something, which would be much further away from the Turkish pronunciation than an anglicized Türkiye or the original English Turkey.

We could also use Tuerkeuë instead, doesn't it look beautiful?