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Yes I was amused too. And "I" is for International. 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 >> _______________________________________ >> >> James St. John >> Founders Hall 156A >> 1179 University Drive >> Ohio State University at Newark >> Newark, Ohio 43055 USA >> __________________________________________ >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > --- > ADDRESS: Dept. de Geologia/Unitat Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma > de > Barcelona, Campus, > Edifici Cs, 08193 Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès), Catalunya, SPAIN > --- > Tel xx34-93-581-1464/Fax -1263 > --- > n.malchus@gmx.net (admits larger attachments) > nikolaus.malchus@uab.es (max. 2MB for attachments) > --- > >
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