http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=223050&s=&i=&t=Asimed_Ur...
"ERZURUM - The Turkish Association for Fight Against Unfounded Genocide Allegations (ASIMED) launched an e-mail campaign against Wikipedia urging it to remove the "Semi-Protection" lock over the article on Armenian allegations concerning the incidents of 1915."
Good grief!
I realize that, having been partially suckered by their ploy, I'm not the best person to be expressing outrage here, but: what can they possibly be thinking? Do they even understand what "semi-protection" actually means? Surely they realize that a contentious issue like this one is much better served by limiting the editing activity to registered users, rather than letting in any random anonymous-IP drive-by editor...