Turkey's EU Membership

[Otto3]

i guess not... i have never been before.... today they dont even prosecute demonstrators with terrorist flags... so we would say we are enjoying a silly democracy around here

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Only if he writes it down and uses the letters "Q" and "W".

I dont get it.

[Otto3]

i dont get it too... maybe it is forbidden here to use them... bell knows better

[bell-the-cat]

i dont get it too... maybe it is forbidden here to use them... bell knows better

It is against the law in Turkey to write words that have the letters "Q" and "W" if those words are to be displayed in public. I'm surprised you don't know that. Same for any words written in Arabic, or Armenian, or Greek, or Laz alphabets.

[bell-the-cat]

(Reuters, November 2005)

A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish New Year celebration, under a law
that bans the use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, human
rights campaigners said.

The court in the southeastern city of Siirt fined each of the 20
people 100 new lira ($75.53) for holding up the placards, written in
Kurdish, at the event last year. The letters Q and W do not exist in
the Turkish alphabet.

Under pressure from the European Union, Turkey has improved
language and human rights for its Kurdish minority, but the EU says
implementation has been patchy and loopholes remain.

The 1928 Law on the Adoption and Application of Turkish Letters
changed the Turkish alphabet from the Arabic script to a modified
Latin script and required all signs, advertising, newspapers and
official documents to only use Turkish letters.

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Damn...thats crazy. I didn't know they'd go THAT FAR.

Wait a minute...yes I did.

[Otto3]

but you can put them on t-shirts....

[bell-the-cat]

but you can put them on t-shirts....

I guess Ataturk or Innonu didn't consider the possibility of printed T-shirt designs back in the 1920s when they were drafting their alphabet-reform laws. I think they were all shirts-and-vests men.

[TomServo]

Ataturk had a great fashion sense.

[hellenics]

Re: Turkey's EU Membership

Idea 1: Turks relocate to Central Asia and allow the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks of Asia Minor to live in peace.

...Good Idea Turks return in Central Asia....People is better without Turks.I am sure for the next 100 years Turkey never is member of E.U.