Showing posts with label Sur Municipality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sur Municipality. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

ONE IS LEGAL AND ONE IS NOT

"Why is it that tourists who visit Topkapi Palace in Istanbul can get an audio listening guide in English, French, Spanish, German or Italian, but when I publish a small tourist brochure in Armenian, as a welcoming gesture to Armenian tourists who want to visit their ancestral home, I am accused of committing a crime?"
~ Abdullah Demirbaş.


Yenişehir's Women's Day message:




The same message in Kurdish and Turkish:





They probably won't get in trouble for the first message but they probably will get in trouble for the second. Can you guess why?

Hint: Abdullah Demirbaş and Sur Municipality.

UPDATE: There's more on the Chinese posters at Bianet and another at CafeBabel.com.