paleonet interesting violation of ICZN rules

[JAMES STJOHN <stjohn.2@xxxxxxx>]

To all Paleonetters,

The BBC News website has an interesting article today (8 March 2005) about 
the government of Turkey wanting to change the Latin species names of some 
living organisms to remove references to Kurdistan & Armenia for political 
purposes.

An intriguing (and unique?) violation of ICZN rules!  Does anyone know of 
other examples of this sort of thing?

The article can be found at the following web address:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4328285.stm


Best,

James St. John

stjohn.2@osu.edu
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James St. John
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