Originally Posted by
hfly
You can refer to it any way you want. When speaking in English 98% of Turks that I know still call it Turkey (It has always been Turkiye in Turkish obviously). It is sort of like if you go to MUMBAI, almost everyone calls it Bombay. It should be noted that in most other languages the name has not changed and it is still Turquia, Turkei, Turchia, etc both before and after the "change". Also how few people really use Czechia.
It's interesting, though probably OMNI territory!
We're not talking a name-change here, as you point out. Turkey is a nation insisting it should be referred to internationally by its accepted endonymic title, very little different to the current international version. The equivalent of Brazil requesting the world to ditch the
z for an
s. A complete name change is probably easier to handle (e.g. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe) though still not always universal (hello Myanmar).
City name changes are different, it's more difficult to compel compliance. But Mumbai maybe isn't the best example of an unsuccessful switch. Pretty much all Mumbaikers, except the SoBo crowd (and IIT Bombay
), routinely employ the modern version; the rest of India too: I'm not sure how well it's entered the vocabulary of the world outside India, but it seems widely used.