Talk:Mersin
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[edit] Language tags
Rather than a revert war, perhaps talking would be best?
Normally, when there are other current words for the title in other languages, they are included parenthetically on the top line. There is a long-standing guideline on this, Wikipedia:Naming conventions (use English)#Include alternatives. Please keep the Greek. But why the Albanian?
However, historic names for the town are traditionally included in the "=History=" section, not the lede. It doesn't matter whether those folks still live there. If there are other older non-official names for the area, that's where they belong!
In places like Antakya, they warrant a separate article Antioch, as that article is so much larger than the modern article.
Moreover, the many non-English translations for other words in the body text would be parenthetical on the linked pages, not here. I've moved those language parts to their respective pages.
Finally, Strabo was Roman (and studied in Rome), not from Ancient Greece. "The traditional date for the end of the Ancient Greek period is the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC."
- --William Allen Simpson 14:42, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Albanian name
I removed the Albanian name, until someone can give me proof that the Albanians had anything to do with this city. It was added by 200.142.176.82 (talk • contribs), who's only other contribution was to vandalize the Greeks article. --Khoikhoi 04:34, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Population
The article contradicts itself on population. At the top it says "537,842 according to the 2000 census" and at the bottom, "733,066 (2000 census". Rolofft 06:23, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kurds
This is what the source says:
The nationalists have a growing list of grievances. Chief among them: that Erdogan, prodded by Brussels, granted more cultural rights to the country's 13 million Kurds. But instead of peace, the last year has seen an upsurge in Kurdish guerrilla attacks on Turkish soldiers. That's given rise, in turn, to a number of anti-Kurdish nationalist groups. The leader of one such group, the Patriotic Forces in Mersin, an ethnically mixed town in the largely Kurdish southeast, recently called on "Turkish patriots" to take to the streets to prevent Kurds from "taking over." Worse, Erdogan's entire EU project was called into question last December when Brussels partially suspended talks in a dispute over Cyprus. After so many sacrifices for Brussels' sake, many Turks considered it "a slap in the face," says Naci Tunc, an activist for the Nationalist Action Party, or MHP.
