diff --git a/sonata/misc.py b/sonata/misc.py
index c5e2dcf..42aaabd 100644
--- a/sonata/misc.py
+++ b/sonata/misc.py
@@ -222,7 +222,12 @@ def setlocale():
 		locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "")
 		# XXX this makes python-mpd correctly return lowercase
 		# keys for, e.g., playlistinfo() with a turkish locale:
-		locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "C")
+		# (and breaks playlist search with russian),
+		# so, added check for turkish here.
+		turkish = ('tr_TR',)
+		loc, encoding = locale.getlocale()
+		if loc in turkish:
+			locale.setlocale(locale.LC_CTYPE, "C")
 	except:
 		print "Failed to set locale"
 		sys.exit(1)