That calling a country or city by its native name in another language is pretentious 😜

In an English sentence, I don't say I'll be going to España but to Spain, my last trips weren't to Praha and Wien but to Prague and Vienna, and the capital of Russia isn't Москва́ but Moscow.

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Turkish people dont like to use Turkey. That ıs the reason lately even Turkısh goverment use Türkiye 🇹🇷

I know, that's my main gripe actually, I don't care about popular usage so much as that some government somewhere is trying to make me use different words, especialy if it uses non-latin characters. It'd be like the Austrian government insisting on people calling their country Österreich even though nobody can find that bloody Ö on their keyboard. Or the Greek government demanding to be called Ἑλλάς which is essentially impossible in written communication between non-Greek-speakers.

Don't get me wrong, my criticism is merely linguistic in nature, I have nothing against your country or culture.