The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities (ALLEA), the European University Association (EUA) and Science Europe issued a joint statement on the urgent need to back commitments to academic freedom and university autonomy with solid actions.
In response to the latest actions taken by the Hungarian Ministry for Innovation and Technology concerning the allocation of funding to the research institutes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ALLEA reinforces its calls to protect the institutional autonomy and academic freedom of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
The Science Academy, Turkey endorses this ALLEA statement. To read the full statement, please click.
The Science Academy, Turkey’s public statement on the situation of universities at the beginning of 2019 was released on January 16, 2019.
Please click to read this statament in English.
The following scientists were elected as Science Academy, Turkey members at the General Assembly on 1.12.2018.
HONORARY MEMBERS
Yoshinori Asakawa – Tokushima Bunri University
Günter Stock – Einstein Foundation
MEMBERS
Sevtap Arıkan Akdağlı – Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Altan Baykal – Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
Edhem Eldem – Boğaziçi Üniversitesi
Ayşe İmrohoroğlu – University of Southern California
The Science Academy’s fourth report on the situation of academic freedoms in Turkey is released. Please click to read the report
Please follow the links for the 2015 Report and 2015-2016 Report and 2016-2017 Report.
David Pines, Honorary Member of Bilim Akademisi, passed away on 3 May 2018, at the age of 94 years in his home surrounded by loved ones.
He was a distinguished professor of physics, University of California, Davis, research professor of physics and professor emeritus of physics and electrical and computer engineering in the Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), and a staff member in the office of the Materials, Physics, and Applications Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and was associated with many universities around the world. In Turkey, he was an adjunct professor and one …
The Science Academy sees it necessary to publicly express once again its concerns on the growing restraints on freedom of science and on its sine qua non condition, the freedom of speech. We sadly observe that the problems we have previously pointed out regarding the freedom of speech are still present. The absence of any significant improvements, on the contrary, an increase in negative practices have turned the problem into a systematic issue.
To read the full statement please click.
The following scientists were elected as Science Academy, Turkey members at the General Assembly on 2.12.2017.
HONORARY MEMBERS
Takhmasib Aliev – Physics – Middle East Technical University
Ayşe Çağlar – Anthropology – University of Vienna
MEMBERS
Şermin Genç – Biology- Dokuz Eylul University
Murat Karaçorlu – Ophthalmology – Istanbul Retina Institute
Bülent Mengüç- Business Administration – Kadir Has University
Aydoğan Özcan – Physical and Wave Electronics – UCLA
Sinan Özeren- Geology – İstanbul Technical University
The Science Academy’s third report on the situation of academic freedoms in Turkey is released. Please click to read the report
Please follow the links for the 2015 Report and 2015-2016 Report.
