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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
Strange laws from a western perspective, indeed. I never knew about them. It's certainly something they'd have to change if they'd seriously wanted to join the EU (which I doubt meanwhile).

OTOH, we're not here to judge but to find solutions. We will not find a solution for a Nokia marketing decision based on whatever factors we don't know.
But the community can provide a Turkish UI and even several Turkish keyboard variants for the onscreen-kbd to make the N900 more enjoyable for those Turkish speaking people who live in countries with more liberal laws. (Or to make it more attractive to import the device to Turkey.)

Once a framework is in place, you could use the standard mechanisms already in place to translate third party software.

I realize there's more ppl than I thought here who speak Turkish as their first language. If one of them could just set up a project and do the coordination work, I'm sure it could be done in relatively short time. Sooner than MMS-support, I'd guess.
Benny1967, this is not a suitable place to talk about your political understanding of Turkey as I understand from the few remarks you have made that your knowledge about it is very limited. It is kind of irrational to label Turkey’s legitimate and rational policy about electronic imports as inferior to that of EU. Don’t you know EU is inventing whatever rule is necessary to cut down exports to its market???

Nokia had to be clever and launch N900 into Turkish market from the start. But they don’t know what they are doing. Even the call center of Nokia does not know about the future of N900 in Turkey.

Maybe they think they can’t beat Blacberry and Iphone right now, maybe they are waiting for the next Maemo device to introduce to Turkish market.

Let me say, they are late and mid to high income consumers are buying iphones like cakes. Such a shame for Nokia when Turkish market has always been favouring it.