I personally support this action and understand its aim, since it is related only to English name of the country. I must admit I wouldn´t feel happy if someone called my country "hen" or "donkey", as for example 

Hey I really this! The world should be educated I don´t feel that a name of a country should be modified to suit other´s interests. By retaining the original name will help project the correct image of a nation and its culture.

Long live Türkiye!!

English speakers make use of this similarity every now and then.

For example:

"Turkey I like Turkey really nice with stuffing apple sauce & roasted potatoes"

Wayne Rooney

(After the CL draw he wrote on his page on twitter. Beşiktaş of Turkiye and MU of UK are in the same group)

http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_42870

You can always witness similar attitude when there is competition where Britons and Turks are involved. Even on serious newspapers.

I asked my husband which he preferred.  He said you can call it what you want and it will still be my home...Made me think of this:

"What´s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2

When I say Turkey, other people who are in my country, speak my language and share my culture understand where I am talking about.  I am not being disrespectful but only seeking to be understood by fellow countrymen.  When in Türkiye...I say it the way the Turks do.  I assure you if I said "Türkiye" in casual conversation, I would have to clarify and say..TURKEY! 

So Turks will also stop calling India Hindistan?

We also call Egypt Mısır. Mısır means "corn" in Turkish. We are not innocent

I´m not going to tell you what else Turkki means in Finnish. Otherwise you will all hate me.

Hindistan can mean "land of turkeys". We do the same thing to another country

These are childish things They don´t change anything.

I am sad also because you call me yabancı. Doesn´t yaban mean wilderness and desert?

Seriously, is there an old pejorative meaning in the word?

Yaban also means uncivilised and primitive. It is same thing with calling old Greeks other people barbarians. But we don´t use "yaban" word frequently. I think it dies. And yabancı lost its old meanings and it became "foreigner" It is not a rude thing to say now.