To be fair, Erdogen is a literal boots-on-neck dictator and this entire spectacle is just another distraction / demonstration of political capita he is using to

To be fair, Erdogen is a literal boots-on-neck dictator and this entire spectacle is just another distraction / demonstration of political capita he is using to cling to power. Nor does it even make sense. All languages have names for countries, that are not the true names of those countries. Its normal. Especially when Turkey's desired diacritics can't even be typed on our keyboards. Is it reasonable for Israel to say we must type the name with Hebrew characters? And suddenly we have to guess WTF news agencies are talking about. The point of languages is to be understood, this is making it harder to understand to appease some authoritarian loser. If Turkey were offensive, that's one thing. But it's not and there's no reason for it.