Disinformation about Turkiye [LWN.net]

Disinformation about Turkiye

Posted Nov 29, 2006 17:58 UTC (Wed) by kazmakurek (guest, #41962)
Parent article: Kurdish Ubuntu under investigation in Turkey

Lets have a look at the backstage.

Abdullah Demirbas is a member of a very radical kurdish ethnic seperatist party. This party also known to be the political wing of a terrorist organization called PKK/KADEK which is in the terrorist organizations list in United States, European Union and rest of the world like Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah.

The article in Turkish newspaper Milliyet which is said to cover the situation does not mention about any investigation.The other source of information is also controversial because The New Anatolian is the partner company of a group which constructs buildings for seperatist kurdish groups in Northern Iraq.

Turkish Republics official language is Turkish and naturally official language is used in government services, like most of the states in the world. But citizens are not obliged to use any specific language in their daily life. Since Turkiye is a secular and democratic republic, the state itself promotes and protects rights of her citizens.

Here, we must mention about the Turkish governments support for open source community. Pardus, a national linux distribution is directly supported by Turkish governments research institute called UEKAE (National Research Institute of Electronics and Cryptology (http://www.uekae.tubitak.gov.tr). Although Pardus is a very young distribution, it already gives support not only for Turkish but also for English, German and Dutch. (http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html)

Lets borrow one of Ataturks quotes Peace at home, peace in the world!

Linux at home, linux in the world. :)

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Armenians

Posted Nov 29, 2006 19:22 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

Perhaps some of the suspicion surrounding the matter is a consequence of Turkey's continuing official denial of the Armenian genocide conducted by founding members of the current regime. The New Yorker published an article recently, which may be read at http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/061106c... .

(Americans are directly familiar with the genocidal impulse, the U.S. having conducted its own campaign of extermination throughout most of the 19th century. We have been obliged, as a result of our constitutional freedoms, to own up to it, if not actually to make any sort of commensurate restitution. For an easy tour, see "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James W. Loewen; http://www.amazon.com/Lies-My-Teacher-Told-Everything/dp/... )

Armenians

Posted Nov 29, 2006 19:29 UTC (Wed) by hilmi (guest, #41368) [Link]

Hah! Founding members? I'd like try what you're smoking. I'm sick of
correcting factual errors surrounding this story btw.

Armenians

Posted Dec 2, 2006 6:55 UTC (Sat) by kazmakurek (guest, #41962) [Link]

When you find an odd news about Turkiye, you are ready to make propaganda for the armenian issue and you are ready to attack Turkiye!

This ground is not for politic propaganda and what you talk about is not related with Linux! Are you really a linux user? I don't think even you care about linux or humanity!!

Let's talk about Linux here, The Pardus Linux project has announced the availability of a Pardus Linux 2007 release candidate. According to the changelog, the new version comes with support also for Spanish during system installation :)

http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html