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I haven't used the turtlebot yet, but as a hack you could change the kinect frame/link in the URDF file, which contains the model description of the turtlebot. Just change the orientation according to your needs. But as you already hinted, there might be a better solution, since the other turtlebot users seem to have no complains about this ...

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