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Radio Canada’dan yazdigim mesaja gelen ikinci yanit..
MeltemB

From: Pierre Champoux [email protected]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 3:19 PM
To: Meltemb
Cc: Ombudsman de Radio-Canada [email protected]
Subject: Rép. : Misguided map on your site
Sir,
 
 
We agree with you: Kurdistan is not a country and should not be labelled as such on our maps.
This is why I just made sure that the text below these maps would now state that it represents the “region” known as Kurdistan, a region that spans across turkish, iraki and iranian frontiers.
 
Thank you very much for your time.
 
 
Pierre Champoux
Director, Information
Internet and Digital Services
Radio-Canada
 
>>> Ombudsman de Radio-Canada 10/06/08 12:17 pm >>>

Sir,
 
I write to acknowledge receipt of your e-mail. It is the customary practice of Radio-Canada’s Office of the ombudsman to share letters of complaint with th relevant programmers, who have the right to respond first to criticism. I have therefore shared your e-mail with director Pierre Champoux. If this response is not satisfactory, you can contact this office again, the ombudsman’s mandate is to act as an appeal authority.
 
Regards
 
Julie Miville-Dechêne
Ombudsman, Services français
Société Radio-Canada
www.radio-canada.ca/Ombudsman

>>> “Meltemb” <[email protected]> 06/10/08 11:57 >>>

Madame Miville-Dechene,
 
At least in two different links on your website, you have posted a map which shows half of Turkish Republic as Kurdistan. It is a shame that a media establishment which should be unbiased, you posted this misguided map, since there is no such country named “Kurdistan” especially within the borders of the Turkish Republic!
 
I demand that you either remove this map or the Kurdistan label.
 

 
Thank you.
 
Meltem Birkegren
Ft Lauderdale, FL-USA
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