Why are English speakers calling Turkey Türkiye?

Question

I mean I really don’t have any problems with saying it like this, just don’t understand the need. We don’t call Germany Deutschland or Japan Nihon, so why are people saying Türkiye?

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Afaik it stems from the govt not liking how their name in English is the same as the fowl we eat at Thanksgiving. They want people to call it that but outside of official governments no one cares because for most people over the age of 12 no one cares that the country and the bird have the same name