From Nature News:
The main Turkish government agency responsible for funding science has provoked outrage by apparently censoring a magazine article on the life and work of Charles Darwin.Not surprisingly many Turkish scientists are outraged. "[A] group of university professors plan to read a letter of protest inside TÜBİTAK's headquarters on 11 March," Apparently TÜBİTAK's vice-president, engineer Ömer Cebeci, ordered the changes. As a result, "[t]he Üniversite Konseyleri Derneği (Association of University Councils), an academic society that represents young researchers, has called for Cebeci's resignation."
The article was stripped from the March issue of the widely read popular-science magazine Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) just before it went to press. The magazine, which is published by Turkey's research funding and science management organization, TÜBİTAK, also switched a planned cover picture of Darwin for an illustration relating to global warming.
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