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

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Well, no, it wouldn't as most people wouldn't be able to pronounce a thing even half correctly. And the result would not be more open-mindedness and interest in other countries and cultures but the exact opposite.

I'm reminded at this point that traditional English names for large cities in Germany are usually closer to the actual German pronunciations of those cities than what overcompensating native English speakers tend to guess from the German names - there are few things quite as embarrassing than a dreadful attempt to render 'Köln' when 'Cologne' is sitting right there and is actually decently close to the actual German pronunciation. Or, of course, that traditional English names for some of the larger cities in Northern Italy are closer to what those cities are called in the local dialects than what they're officially called in Italian...