Surenas
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Turkey's science state council halts publication of evolution books
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Haha I studied Evolutionary Biology. I however am currently doing Geography and Economics Joint HBA
You can ban subjects on Evolution but you can't ban Natural selection itself. All Humans are deceded from Mitochondrial Eve (Y-Chromosome)
Which comes from East Africa rift valley...
You can ban subjects on Evolution but you can't ban Natural selection itself. All Humans are deceded from Mitochondrial Eve (Y-Chromosome)
Which comes from East Africa rift valley...
LegionnairE
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You trust a bunch of dimwits with management of a country.. this is what happens.
This isn't even religious this is pure idiocy. Not even a day passes by without me saying "fvck this country" anymore.
Why do we even have different branches in universities? close them down, Imams are good for everything. They can be biologists too
This isn't even religious this is pure idiocy. Not even a day passes by without me saying "fvck this country" anymore.
Why do we even have different branches in universities? close them down, Imams are good for everything. They can be biologists too
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The more governments try to prohobit people from accessing something, the more people become thirsty and curious about it.This is idiocy.
Turkish state science council denies ‘evolution censor’
The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has strongly denied reports that it has stopped printing books on evolution, saying the claims were “black propaganda” against their institution.
“If we aim to censor Evolution Theory we would discontinue publishing any books containing evolutionist approaches, but on the contrary we are publishing the books that are not being published by other publishing houses,” an official from TÜBİTAK told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday in a phone interview.
A number of reports in daily Sözcü claimed Jan. 14 that TÜBİTAK had put a stop to the publication and sale of all books in its archives that support the theory of evolution.
The evolutionist books, previously available through TÜBİTAK’s Popular Science Publications’ List, will no longer be provided by the council, the daily had claimed.
Titles from prominent writers including Richard Dawkins, Alan Moorehead, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Levontin and James Watson were listed as being among those which would no longer be available to Turkish readers.
However, Kulaş refuted the claims. “There are two books already in our 2012 catalogue regarding evolution, Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ is one of them … Dawkins’ ‘The Selfish Gene’ is not being published because of a publication rights issue, but this is being manipulated,” the official said.
He claimed that “some circles” had kicked off a “black propaganda” campaign against TÜBİTAK to “shadow its success,” following the successful mission of Turkey’s first Earth observation satellite, Göktürk-2.
Göktürk-2 was launched Dec. 18 in China, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan followed the launch at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus, which witnessed huge numbers of students protesting the prime minister’s visit.
Erdoğan had called on the academics who supported the students to resign, but the police’s heavy-handed intervention in the protests also stirred a debate among Turkish universities, with some backing the police and Erdoğan and some opposing.
TÜBİTAK had previously been the target of evolutionist circles for alleged censorship practices.
In early 2009 a huge uproar occurred when the cover story of a TÜBİTAK publication was pulled, reportedly because it focused on Darwin’s theory of evolution. The incident led to intense criticism and finger-pointing from various representatives of the publication and its parent institute.
A few months later, the article in question appeared as the publication’s cover story.
January/15/2013
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Turkish state science council denies
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The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) has strongly denied reports that it has stopped printing books on evolution, saying the claims were “black propaganda” against their institution.
“If we aim to censor Evolution Theory we would discontinue publishing any books containing evolutionist approaches, but on the contrary we are publishing the books that are not being published by other publishing houses,” an official from TÜBİTAK told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday in a phone interview.
A number of reports in daily Sözcü claimed Jan. 14 that TÜBİTAK had put a stop to the publication and sale of all books in its archives that support the theory of evolution.
The evolutionist books, previously available through TÜBİTAK’s Popular Science Publications’ List, will no longer be provided by the council, the daily had claimed.
Titles from prominent writers including Richard Dawkins, Alan Moorehead, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Levontin and James Watson were listed as being among those which would no longer be available to Turkish readers.
However, Kulaş refuted the claims. “There are two books already in our 2012 catalogue regarding evolution, Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Blind Watchmaker’ is one of them … Dawkins’ ‘The Selfish Gene’ is not being published because of a publication rights issue, but this is being manipulated,” the official said.
He claimed that “some circles” had kicked off a “black propaganda” campaign against TÜBİTAK to “shadow its success,” following the successful mission of Turkey’s first Earth observation satellite, Göktürk-2.
Göktürk-2 was launched Dec. 18 in China, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan followed the launch at Ankara’s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) campus, which witnessed huge numbers of students protesting the prime minister’s visit.
Erdoğan had called on the academics who supported the students to resign, but the police’s heavy-handed intervention in the protests also stirred a debate among Turkish universities, with some backing the police and Erdoğan and some opposing.
TÜBİTAK had previously been the target of evolutionist circles for alleged censorship practices.
In early 2009 a huge uproar occurred when the cover story of a TÜBİTAK publication was pulled, reportedly because it focused on Darwin’s theory of evolution. The incident led to intense criticism and finger-pointing from various representatives of the publication and its parent institute.
A few months later, the article in question appeared as the publication’s cover story.
January/15/2013
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - Turkish state science council denies
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LegionnairE
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Faith in TÜBİTAK: restored 
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Faith in TÜBİTAK: restored
hurriyetdailynews： Turkish Press TV!lots of fake news such as SOM ICBM
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It is one of the most reliable Turkish paper.
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Thanks man, this crap news was the reason of mine Anti-Erdogan posts within 24 hours! So he is not as blind as I assumed.
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They do that kind of stuff whenever they need to change the topic and manipulate the public. Now people are focused on Paris assassinations so no need for AKP to talk about abortion or headscarf or some other BS
These news was published by lots of different newspapers, only reason why you blame Hürriyet is because they publish news in english
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