Turkish science suffers as government vies with law (original) (raw)

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Praise for the present Turkish government's work in fostering good science, in your Editorial 'Turkey's transformation' (Nature 449, 116; 2007), reads to my eyes like a cruel joke in the face of what is really going on in the country. It is true that the current government has increased the budget placed at the disposal of Tubitak, the main research agency under government control. It did so, however, by slashing the budgets of the independent universities.

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  1. Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences and Department of Geology, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Mines, Istanbul, 34469, Turkey
    A. M. Celâl Sengör

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Sengör, A. Turkish science suffers as government vies with law.Nature 450, 161 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/450161c

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