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Of course I would try. What's the issue with any of that? Such a weird thing to take a stand on.

I'd learn. My capabilities aren't static with time

Why do you think it's just them? We have stopped calling Birmania like that, same as Ceylon, or the Czech Republic.

I'll keep using turkey out of habit but it's not like it's an uncommon occurrence for a country to ask that a different name be used.

Funny you mentioned the Czech Republic: there is a concerted effort by their hockey federation to be called Czechia and we’re getting blasted with it by Bell Media in Canada for the past few years

I wonder if this this region/language dependent. Because I remember that in russian, they’ve been called “Czechia” since at least when Czechoslovakia got broken up, but in english it still seems to be squarely referred to as “Czech Republic”.

it's definitely language dependent, we used to (mostly) call it "Repubblica Ceca" in Italian but have largely switched to "Cechia" now.

Which is weird enough, since Italy is literally called "Repubblica Italiana" on our own passports, but we never call it that.

Rossiya isn't very different from the western Russia tbh

Maybe the best example would be pronouncing Iran correctly.

Try also saying "Al-Mamlakah Al-ʿArabiyyah as-Suʿūdiyyah" instead of Saudi Arabia.