Today.Az » Politics » Google makes gross mistake about Azerbaijan (PHOTO)
21 July 2009 [15:38] - Today.Az
Day. Az has reported on numerous occasions that largest Russian portal Mail.ru, mobile operators Megafon, Kievstar, Astelit, MTS Ukraine and VELCOM GSM have called into question the facts related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity.
Unfortunately, the afore-said list includes also Google, one of the largest search system worldwide, which has made gross mistakes related to Azerbaijan.
The Azerbaijani map posted by Google indicates three Azerbaijani regions – Khankandi, Agdara and Khojavand - with Armenian toponyms. Khankandi is indicated as Stepanakert, Agdara as Mardakert and Khojavand as Martuni.
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said the ministry will study this issue. “We will send official inquiry to relevant agencies.”
We hope that Google will rename Stepanakert into Khankandi, Mardakert into Agdara and Martuni into Khojavand after we publish this article.
We call on all our readers to write a letter of protest and fill in an online form with the content that can be as follows:
“Hello
Admittedly, Google is the largest search system worldwide. So, we consider it important to bring into your notice that the Google map related to Azerbaijan includes gross mistakes which harms Azerbaijan’s interests.
We kindly ask you to rename Stepanakert into Khankandi, Mardakert into Agdara and Martuni into Khojavand in your map as these regions are located in Azerbaijan’s territory and have Azerbaijani, but not Armenian names. We believe that mistakes related to Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity are not deliberate and will be corrected as soon as possible.”
/Day.Az/
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