General Discussion

But it's still valid to use the old spelling of the country. As in "Turkey refuse to admit they committed genocide against the Armenians in World War One".

As to "why not follow the lead ..." - because the government who are trying to get other countries to change their spelling (unlike, say, Italy who are quite happy for us to use that and not "Italia" ) are authoritarian twats. It's the same principle as continuing to use "Burma".

Also, a U with an umlaut is a pain in the arse to produce on an English keyboard. And to get to appear in a DU title, for that matter.