Re: paleonet interesting violation of ICZN rules

["Nikolaus Malchus" <n.malchus@xxxxxxx>]

And "I" is for International.

:-), I know


 So yes their 
> decision won't have an impact on the ICZN name just on the Turkish 
> name. Difficult situation for Turkish scientists. Hopefully they won't 
> start in on the plants.
> 
> Judith
> On Mar 8, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Nikolaus Malchus wrote:
> 
> > Hi James,
> >
> > Thanks for that piece of information, though, I am more amused than 
> > worried.
> > Colleagues may correct me but I would think, the I of the CZN stands 
> > for
> > independence. Politicians cannot force the international scientific
> > community to obey their political rules. They could go as far as 
> > oppressing
> > our Turkish colleagues, though, which would be bad enough.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Niko
> >
> >> 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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