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The Science Academy’s Second Declaration on Freedom of Expression

Freedom of Expression, Law, Democracy, Social Development and Power

 

In view of the fact that a group of academics (“Academics for Peace”) who signed a petition are facing pressures including dismissal and imprisonment, we would once again like to underscore citizens’ and academics’ freedom of expression, and right to express their opinions. These rights and freedoms constitute the sine qua non of democracy and the rule of law. The free sharing of opinions and information serves as a guarantee for social consensus and a healthy and democratic dialogue among all citizens. Academics, who are expected to produce and disseminate fresh information …

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BAGEP 2016 Award Ceremony (14.04.2016)

BAGEP 2016 Award Ceremony was held on April 14, 2016 at the METU Conference Center.

The winners (see below)  received their awards. For photos from the ceremony please click.

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BAGEP 2016 Winners

Alper Açık Özyeğin University Psychology
Özgür Akarsu İstanbul Technical University Physics
İbrahim Semih Akçomak Middle East Technical University Science and Technology Politics
Bülent Akgün Boğaziçi University Chemistry
Nuray Akın Özyeğin University Economy
Selim Aksoy Bilkent University Computer Engineering
Hakan Altan Middle East Technical University Physics
Erchan Aptoula Okan University Computer Engineering
Gizem Arıkan Yaşar University International Relations
Selim Erdem Aytaç Koç University International Relations
Sreeparna Banerjee Middle East Technical University Biology
Alp Bassa Boğaziçi University Mathematics
Bilge Baytekin Bilkent University Chemistry
Özgür Birer Koç University Chemistry
Ayşecan Boduroğlu Boğaziçi University Psychology
Ayşegül Buğra Koç University Law
Seymur Cahangirov Bilkent University Physics
Barış Coşkunüzer Koç University Mathematics
Hümeyra Çağlayan Abdullah Gül University Physics
Betül Çelebi Saltık Hacettepe University Medicine
Özge Çevik Cumhuriyet University Biochemistry
Muhammed Kasım Diril Dokuz Eylül University Biology
Fabienne …
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Feryal Özel Wins Guggenheim Fellowship

The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded The Science Academy member Feryal Özel a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Feryal Özel’s personal webpage: http://xtreme.as.arizona.edu/~fozel/

The list of current Guggenheim Fellows: http://www.gf.org/fellows/current/

 

 

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NATURE Editorial – Power of the Pen (24.03.2016)

Scientists must unite to stop Turkey from removing the right to freedom of expression.

When he labelled outspoken academics as terrorists, Turkey’s increasingly authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was probably not thinking of Voltaire’s eighteenth-century philosophical maxim: “To hold a pen is to be at war”.

Erdoğan sent shivers down the spines of those who care about human rights by declaring on 14 March that those who support terrorists are as guilty as those “who pull the trigger”, and …

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Support From International Academies on Freedom of Speech

We have already shared The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRNASS)  statement on freedom of speech in Turkey. (please click)

On January 21, 2016 ICSU (International Council of Scientific Unions)  shared their letter to President Tayyip Erdoğan regarding freedom of speech in Turkey. (please click)

On February 1, 2016 ALLEA (All European Academies) shared their support regarding freedom of speech issues in Turkey. (please click)

 

 

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The Science Academy’s Report on Homeopathy

An unscientific disease treatment method: Homeopathy

Recently we have been worried to see certain universities, and even faculties of medicine, promote and host meetings on homeopathy in their campuses.
Although devoid of any active medical substance, homeopathic treatment is seen to replace medical methods in certain cases, putting the lives of patients at serious risk.

To read the full report please click.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Istanbul Conference Video

The Science Academy welcomed world-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in the first ever of its recently launched Annual Lectures. At the conference held on 4 February 2016 at Boğaziçi University, Dame Jocelyn gave a lecture on pulsars, which she discovered in 1967, in the context of relativity and gravity.

Please click to watch the video:

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Follow Up on The Soma Mining Disaster (Şebnem Düzgün & Evren Yaylacı)

A paper on the follow up of the Soma Mining disaster by H. Şebnem Düzgün and Evren D. Yaylacı, both from the Department of Mining Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey.

Please click to read “An evaluation of Soma underground coal mine disaster with respect to risk acceptance and risk perception”.

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell in Istanbul (4.02.2016)

The Science Academy welcomed world-renowned astrophysicist Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, in the first ever of its recently launched Annual Lectures. At the conference held on 4 February 2016 at Boğaziçi University, Dame Jocelyn gave a lecture on pulsars, which she discovered in 1967, in the context of relativity and gravity.

Please click to read journalist Reyhan Oksay’s article.

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