Entomofauna of the World

A Cesa
Project

“The truth can be bent but never
broken”,

“Hakikat eğilebilir fakat
asla kırılamaz”,

“Hek égilidu,
sunmaydu”

(Uighurian
Proverb)

From the
Preambel of the Cesa:

“Cesa interests especially in the Lepidoptera of the World
professionally.

Organization
the international researches regarding the fauna, taxonomy,

nomenclature, morphology, ecology, biodiversity,
conservation, bibliography,

checklists, catalogues of the Insecta, and the
publications are among its aims.

Only the
scientific collaborations by the esteemed scientists are  welcomed”

We sincerely thank to
all esteemed scientists from all over the World for their kind supports and
encouragements.

On December 10, 1948 the General
Assembly of the United Nations

adopted and proclaimed the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.

The following articles of the
declaration are closely related with our scientific aims and attempts.

Selected Articles of the Human Rights

Two transects about our Entomofauna Projects

“Our attempt on
studying the Entomofauna is rather new. Of course, Turkey, our land is placed
in the focus of this survey.  By
doing this, we should search the fauna of not only the neighbour countries,
but also the continents, namely Eurasia and Africa, as their faunal elements
inhabit in various regions of Turkey in various rates. … Without
corrected faunal and taxonomical lists, such an enormous attempt cannot be
successful. We strongly believe this; therefore we have to make some
preferences concerning Entomofauna survey, i.e., first nomenclatural studies,
taxonomical and faunal lists in our database systems, than the studies in the
laboratory concerning the identifications the materials collected by us and
their evaluations, including their descriptions. We are of the opinion that,
studying on the nomenclature of the orders under discussion, are extremely
serious and necessary attempts as in the field or in the laboratory studies.
From time to time, we have been receiving some annoying, and provocative  messages by some persons due to their
intolerance of our nomenclatural activities. In the preamble of the Cesa, the
following statement may be read every time “…researches regarding the fauna, taxonomy, nomenclature…are
among its aims”.
Separately, we have been occasionally declaring that we always open to
every constructive criticisms, sincere and scientific collaborations during
our studying programs. But if such expected approach doesnot happen, we
consider this  reasonable to some
degree. Under these circumstances, we naturally fulfil the responsibilities
alone, namely, identifying and preparing the necessary descriptions of most
insect groups, as well as the nomenclatural studies within our planned
surveys. By the way, we would like to explain our opinion about the nomenclatural
acts. According to the ICZN, it is a published act which affects the
nomenclatural status of a scientific name or the typification of a nominal
taxon. Under these circumstances, a nomenclatural act is related with the new
synonyms, new combinations, new stati, new names, as well as all kinds of
descriptions of the taxa, type selections, designations, dates of
publications, and the authorships. The meaning of the studying with the
nomenclature cannot be merely restricted with the proposing replacement names.  Besides,
the studying with the nomenclature is not so different from the studying with
the taxonomy. And it cannot be defined as a “nightmare”  that claimed by some persons
unaccountably. Such an approach to the nomenclature and the scientists
interested in it, is simply not only absurd but also completely
non-scientific.  Final words that
we would say are so; our project is pure scientific; therefore it has no
reward. And, if such a scientific attempt had been made by foreigners it
would be highly welcomed.”

Koçak,A.Ö.
& M.Kemal, 2009, List of the coleopteran genera and species recorded in
Turkey based upon the Info-system of the Cesa.   Cesa News 53:
1-213,  145 figs.

http://www.archive.org/details/CentreForEntomologicalStudiesAnkaraCesaNewsNr.53

An illegal
threat to our scientific studies from abroad!!!

The following messages have been found in the internet placed in the
forum of “Parahym” [Parasitic Hymenoptera] [Access 16 July,2010]

What is Parahym?

“A
new discussion forum dedicated to parasitic Hymenoptera has been started. The
list, PARAHYM, is intended to include all aspects of parasitic Hymenoptera,
and thus be of interest to biological control workers, ecologists,
systematists, and anyone else who is studying these
organisms.”…”Enquiries about this list can be sent to: J.S.
Noyes: [email-masked] “

However, most of the messages written in 2009 are about our
nomenclatural studies and the possible and so-called democratic ways
(!) for stopping us. Completely lie and wrong arguments about us were heated
discussed. One of them – apparently more scientific one, is given below
with grief:

“Hi Doug,

I suppose this problem really illustrates that we desperately need some sort of registration for journals

that publish taxonomic/nomenclatural acts whether it be e-journals or printed journals. If something

like that had been in place then these i d i o t s would not have been able to publish their papers and

have their names made available. Having said that one group pulished in a journal that probably would

have been registered - Journal of Entomological Science. In that case it really is the editor

who is to blame.

John Noyes” Fri Oct 16 18:05:10 BST 2009[Parahym].

Second selected message belongs to the name that we proposed.

“(this establishes some a t r o c i o u s  generic names such as Canada, Guinea, and Latina)”

Peace On Behalf Of Doug Yanega. Wed Oct 14 10:16:28 BST 2009[Parahym].

Only these selected two messages show the truth on the understanding of the scientific and

democratic approach of us and of those people. We named Canada, Guinea, Latina etc., as we

respected to the people of  Canada, Guinea and Latin America. Sorry, we were not aware that the

official names of these States were “atrocious”!!!

According to Dr. Noyes, we, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Omer Kocak and Asst. Prof. Dr. Muhabbet Kemal are

“idiots”. In this century, such an academic approach is imcomprehensible. The most reasonable

explanation of this case is the existence of such people in our scientific world, even today, opposing

clearly to Universal Human Rights Declaration (see above).

Sorry Sir, you are not master, and we are not your puppets!!!

In other words, “No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be

prohibited in all their forms” (Universal Human Rights Declaration, Article 4). Slavery epoch is over!

Responsibility:

Prof. Dr. Ahmet Omer Kocak, Dean of Faculty
of Science, Yuzuncu Yil University, Campus, Van, Turkey

updated 19th July 2010