Ubuntu under investigation by Turkish attorney general

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 16:56:40 +0800
"Zak B. Elep" <zakame at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On 11/29/06, t u <towsonu2003 at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Kurdish_operating_system_under_investigation_by_Turkish_attorney_general
> >
> > I was going to send this to ubuntu-devel, but I somehow overcame the
> > desire to do so...
> >
> > PS. I am Turkish, and I am truly ashamed by this...
> 
> Why?  Is there some other `negative' context in this `investigation'?
> I've read that the attorney general is investigating on the `mayor of
> Sur and on Ubuntu;' are you insinuating that there has been some sort
> of illegal action taken by the mayor?

Turkish policy on Kurdish language:

http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~siamakr/Kurdish/KURDICA/1999/JUL/policy.html
 

I think we can assume that the Turkish government takes a dim view of such
efforts. judging by the above link.

Also see
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/kurdistan-turkey.htm


The definition of Ubuntu is perhaps lost on them.

Peter