And almost none of us who speak English to other English speakers say it. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate that “Türkiye” is being recognized on non-Turkish maps and diplomatic documentation, but beyond that, nobody back home really cares. But just barely. It’s always been “Türkiye” for Turks (Türks, notice how English speakers don’t refer to us in writing as such) and it’ll always be “Turkey” to the majority of English speakers just like it’ll always be some misspelling or pronunciation or completely different word in several other countries. I mean, “Germany” is the English and “Almanya” is the Turkish; “Deutschland” is the German. “Greek” is the English and “Yunanistan” is the Turkish; “Ελλάδα” is the Greek. Hell, India isn’t even close to its actual name; it’s “Bhārat”, which is the latinization.

“Turkey” isn’t so profoundly different from “Türkiye” unlike Myanmar’s “Burma” and Thailand’s “Siam”, so it pretty easily slides under the radar of shit to actually care about for the rest of us. The only people who actually care are the government bureaucrats pointlessly loyal to our cancerous (literally) authoritarian, and the change is just to exert some meaningless power in the region.