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Editorial
Nature 449, 116 (13 September 2007) | doi:10.1038/449116a; Published online 12 September 2007
Turkey's transformation
Turkish scientists have never had it so good, thanks to their country's efforts to align its laws and policies to those required for membership of the European Union (EU). In a bid to create a science and higher-education landscape that matches the EU norm, Turkey has more than doubled its research spending in the past five years, and is half way to its goal of spending 2% of its gross domestic product on research by 2010.
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