Turkey’s Nobel laureate in Chemistry Aziz Sancar has said he would have taken the COVID-19 vaccine jab if he was in Turkey.<\/p>\n
Sancar, who is currently living in the US, said he is not an infectious disease specialist.<\/p>\n
\u201cI cannot make a contribution to what Turkish specialists have said on the issue. I would follow Turkish doctors\u2019 advice if I were in Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n
He clarified he is not on social media and anti-vaccine tweets attributed to him are from a fake account.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose doing it or spreading it despite knowing it is fake should face legal action.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not know why they are doing this. The vaccine is not about a political party. Those who decided to buy the vaccine from China for use in Turkey are not politicians, they are our health specialists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sancar added that although he does not know which of the Chinese, Russian, and American vaccine or the vaccine produced by Turkish scientists in Germany is more effective, he believes they all will offer protection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI advise my nation to use the vaccine presently available in Turkey and not listen to anybody\u2019s advice but the health specialists,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would wait in the line right now to get the vaccine provided by our Health Ministry if I were in Turkey,\u201d Sancar added.<\/p>\n
Sancar was awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Tomas Lindahl and Paul Modrich for their mechanistic studies of DNA repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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