{"id":32143,"date":"2013-01-15T16:09:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=32143"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:09:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T14:09:28","slug":"turkish-state-science-council-ignores-the-theory-of-evolution-turkey-news-32143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkish-state-science-council-ignores-the-theory-of-evolution-turkey-news-32143\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish state science council ignores the theory of evolution \/ Turkey News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (T\u00dcB\u0130TAK) has strongly denied reports that it has stopped printing books on evolution, saying the claims were \u201cblack propaganda\u201d against their institution.<\/h1>\n

\u201cIf 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,\u201d an official from T\u00dcB\u0130TAK told the yesterday in a interview.<\/p>\n

A number of reports in daily S\u00f6zc\u00fc claimed Jan. 14 that T\u00dcB\u0130TAK had put a stop to the publication and sale of all books in its archives that support the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

The evolutionist books, previously available through T\u00dcB\u0130TAK\u2019s Popular Science Publications\u2019 List, will no longer be provided by the council, the daily had claimed.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

However, the official refuted the claims. \u201cThere are two books already in our 2012 catalogue regarding evolution, Richard Dawkins\u2019 \u2018The Blind Watchmaker\u2019 is one of them \u2026 Dawkins\u2019 \u2018The Selfish Gene\u2019 is not being published because of a publication rights issue, but this is being manipulated,\u201d the official said.<\/p>\n

He claimed that \u201csome circles\u201d had kicked off a \u201cblack propaganda\u201d campaign against T\u00dcB\u0130TAK to \u201cshadow its success,\u201d following the successful mission of Turkey\u2019s first Earth observation satellite, G\u00f6kt\u00fcrk-2.<\/p>\n

G\u00f6kt\u00fcrk-2 was launched Dec. 18 in China, but Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan followed the launch at Ankara\u2019s Middle East Technical University (ODT\u00dc) campus, which witnessed huge numbers of students protesting the prime minister\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n

Erdo\u011fan had called on the academics who supported the students to resign, but the police\u2019s heavy-handed intervention in the protests also stirred a debate among Turkish universities, with some backing the police and Erdo\u011fan and some opposing.<\/p>\n

T\u00dcB\u0130TAK had previously been the target of evolutionist circles for alleged censorship practices.<\/p>\n

In early 2009 a huge uproar occurred when the cover story of a T\u00dcB\u0130TAK publication was pulled, reportedly because it focused on Darwin\u2019s theory of evolution. The incident led to intense criticism and finger-pointing from various representatives of the publication and its parent institute.<\/p>\n

A few months later, the article in question appeared as the publication\u2019s cover story.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey (T\u00dcB\u0130TAK) has strongly denied reports that it has stopped printing books on evolution, saying the claims were \u201cblack propaganda\u201d against their institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,171,174,173],"tags":[43623,39495,43621,43624,43625,43620,43622,77182,43618,43619],"class_list":["post-32143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-daily","category-turkey-headlines","tag-black-propaganda-institution","tag-darwin","tag-evolution","tag-evolution-theory","tag-the-scientific-and-technical-research-council-of-turkey","tag-theory-of-evolution","tag-tubitak","tag-turkey","tag-turkey-science","tag-turkish-state-science-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}