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Nature 450, 161 (8 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450161c; Published online 7 November 2007

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Turkish science suffers as government vies with law

A. M. Celâl Sengör1

  1. Istanbul Technical University, Eurasia Institute of Earth Sciences and Department of Geology, Faculty of Mines, 34469 Istanbul, Turkey

Praise for the present Turkish government's work in fostering good science, in your Editorial 'Turkey's transformation' (Nature 449, 116; 2007), reads to my eyes like a cruel joke in the face of what is really going on in the country. It is true that the current government has increased the budget placed at the disposal of Tubitak, the main research agency under government control.

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