Today's Authoritarianism Brought to You by the Letters Q and W

Julian Sanchez | October 25, 2005

A friend passes along this story, which if I didn't see the CNN banner I'd swear had been excerpted from Bend Sinister:

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 use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.