Very interesting stuff here and food for thought. Please see this link: http://www.pardusworld.com/project-fatih-and-pardus/ Important point is that the Turkish Government has been developing its own Linux Distro, called Pardus, which is used in many government departments. This reminds me of the Red Flag Linux distro being used in China, with some interesting stuff about it on Wikipedia going like "During a brief standoff with Microsoft in January in a year-length series of increasing tensions believed to have been tied to Microsoft's perceived mismanagement of its Microsoft Venus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Venus> venture, Chinese governmental ministries were ordered to uninstall Windows 2000<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000>from their computers in favor of Red Flag Linux. [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Flag_Linux#cite_note-cnn-0>"