Getting a new name (or just a new spelling--it's not clear to me if the Turks want it to still be pronounced like "Turkey" or if we are supposed to be saying something more like "Turk-kee-yeh") of familiar country is an uphill battle. If they are just trying to change the spelling they would have a lot easier time getting English writers to adopt it if they dropped the dots and let the spelling me "Turkiye" in English.
Apparently the dots make some distinction in pronunciation in Turkish, but I have only the faintest idea of what that is. Most Americans won't even have that. The dots will just make the word look weird, foreign, and hard to pronounce. It will also always look like a non-English word, which is a pretty big barrier to ever getting it accepted as an English word among English speakers.
Oddly enough, President Erdogan, is not pushing to have the name of the Turkish language spelled "Türkish" (or "Türkçe"). Nor is he trying to get English writers to put that doo-hicky over the g and spell his own name "Erdoğan." If we can drop the diacritic marks for those words in English, why not for Tuyrkiye?
