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IHRNASS Statement on Turkey (19.01.2016)

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (IHRNASS) has issued a statement regarding the Turkish academicians right to free speech. For the pdf file please click. Furthermore as of 25 January 30 Nobel Laureates have endorsed this statement (full list here)

January 19, 2016

The International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies (H.R. Network) supports and defends the right of fellow academics, anywhere in the world, to peacefully express their lawful opinions and concerns. We, the members of the H.R. Network’s Executive Committee, are alarmed by the increasingly repressive and inflammatory reaction by …

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The Science Academy’s Declaration on Freedom of Expression

The Science Academy’s Declaration on the Freedom of Expression

15.01.2016

The Science Academy observes with immense concern and worry the developments that have followed the declaration of the text entitled “We will not be a party to this crime”, signed by over one thousand academics. Undoubtedly, political violence and terror constitute a fierce attack on all humanitarian values including human honor and right to life, as well as all the basic rights and freedoms. Violence, hatred and hostility should never be legitimized, defended, praised or encouraged in a democratic society. Both the Turkish constitution and the treaties on human rights signed by …

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Istanbul – 04.02.2016

From 2016, The Science Academy is starting a series of Annual Lectures by eminent natural and social scientists and scholars in humanities.

The first lecture will be given by reknowned astrophysicist Prof. Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who is best known for discovering pulsars, one of the most significant scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

“An introduction to pulsars – throwing some light on gravity and relativity”
4.2.2016 – 16:00

Boğaziçi University –  Albert Long Hall

Please click for the press release.

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New Members of the Science Academy

The following scientists were elected as Science Academy members at the General Assembly on  19.12.2015
Özgür Barış Akan, , Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Koç University
Erdal Arıkan, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bilkent University
Deniz Kırık, Neuroscience, Lunds University
Mehmet Kobya, Environmental Sciences, Gebze Technical University 
Orhan Yenigün, Environmental Sciences, Boğaziçi University

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Ayşe Buğra, Winner of 2015 TWAS – Celso Furtado Award in Social Sciences

The Science Academy member Ayşe Buğra was awarded The World Academy of Sciences 2015 Celso Furtado Award for her contribution to research on social policy in emerging developing economies and globally, with a critical perspective on state-society-market relations in Turkey.

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