I think Turkey tried a couple of years ago to specify that the spelling of the country’s name in English should be the same as in Turkish. I remember reading about it in the news.

Probably that suggestion/rule is followed by some parts of the UN and perhaps some documents from a few foreign ministries. I certainly hadn’t ever seen it in the wild until the GP comment. It made me chuckle…not at the commenter but at the country.

But what the hell, yes I wrote (and will continue to write) “Turkey”, but I won’t call Istanbul Constantinople, much less Byzantium.

"Please spell our country name with letters you don't have in your language"

Not sure why these absurd dictatorial tendencies are being taken seriously...

Well, if governments in 東京, 서울, and กรุงเทพมหานคร do, shouldn't we also? /s

If it's okay for Côte d'Ivoire or Réunion then I don't see why Türkiye should be snubbed for making a similar request.

Also it's 2023 and people know how to deal with tricky alphabets and stuff now.

Right like it takes any effort to just look it up and copy and paste.

Well... There is an argument for those based solely in the volume of loan words from French though right?

Not saying it's wrong to not deride someone for using the proper spelling but the existence of the French forms shouldn't inherently require forms from languages without significant influence on English.

> I think Turkey tried a couple of years ago to specify that the spelling of the country’s name in English should be the same as in Turkish

They asked for it to be changed, and got what they asked for. Both the UN (https://turkiye.un.org/en/184798-turkeys-name-changed-türkiy..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey#Presidential_ci...) and the USA (https://www.dw.com/en/us-officially-changes-spelling-of-turk...) decided to change that spelling.