They have not all Dutch citizenship, some have a 5-year visa. We don´t have these letters in our alphabet/language though we use sometimes loanwords from France (ç ) or Germany (ü ) who have. The þ, ð, ý and ö can be demanded as well, I don´t know if they exist in other languages.

 It only applies to the Latin alphabet, simply because we can´t read others. Sure, most of us don´t know Turkish but even with a bad pronunciation we can say names and we can write them. That´s not the case with the other types of alphabet, so sorry for those people....

In Poland you cannot register a name with letters that the Polish alphabet doesn´t have. Thus if, say, your name has ö it will most likely be recorded as oe. It´s the same in Ireland - they cannot record characters specific to the Polish alphabet so instead of Ł they´ll put L, A instead of Ą.

I don´t think minorities whose language is not an official language of the country they live in should be able to register names with the letters the official alphabet lacks. However, they should have the right to have their own press and media in their own language.

is  ö the same thing as oe? ok than we have the same thing in Turkey too, for example if your name has ph it will be recorded as f. see they are the same things!

I am not sure considering Kurds as minorities will be right thing to do..Minorities and their  rights  were mentioned in Treaty of Lausanne.

Kurds are not mentioned over there for example..

Apart from everything, those letter are being used in daily life anyway..

If we are able to do write George Washington as George Washington not as “Vasington”, why should not we show the same flexibility to our own people?

It is all in mental blockage of nationalists..Not in daily life..

We normally use f instead of ph but in most cases we keep the original name as long as there are no funny characters

The H - can you really write Vaþington? Wow! In Polish we write Washington but read it with v, not w. In Czech they have this cute rule to apply feminine endings to female names - thus listening to the news you get Steffi Graffova, Nicole Kidmanova etc

I don´t know..I think I would be offended if registering in another country and they didn´t spell my name correctly... What´s the big deal really?  Do you know how many ways you can spell Lori here in the states...what if you were told sorry we will only accept this way!

you don`t accept my name as it`s written in Turkish in America. Should I be offended?

it is really rideculous,languages differ,have different letters and sounds.Isn´t it rideculous to demand proper spelling in case of  foreign names of which there are no equivalents in country´s alphabet?Try to imagine spelling Chinese or Japanese ones in Latin way.

Kurds are not foreigners of Turkey..

Because ´some Turks see them as foreigners´ was  part of the reason why we had the kurdish problem in the first place..

 I have never met a Turk who claimed Kurds are foreigners.On the contrary those I met called them brothers and sisters and had large circle of Kurdish friends.

All I met wanted to leave in peace and bring up their kids for better future,ready to forget differences and harm.