Re: paleonet interesting violation of ICZN rules

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

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:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4328285.stm
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> 
> Best,
> 
> James St. John
> 
> stjohn.2@osu.edu
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