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Mon Mar 16, 2009 at 04:14:46 PM PDT

It turns out that Darwin is not welcome in a Turkish Science Journal.

Science-funding agency accused of removing evolution article — and its editor — from mainstream magazine.

Alison Abbott

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.

There is nothing 'apparently' about it, either. The editor-in-chief of the popular science journal 'Science and Technology', Bilim ve Teknik, Dr. Atakuman, got fired from her post, because she dared to  publish an article about Darwins life and research. The article got pulled from the March edition of that journal, which appeared one week late, with a hastily added cover story about global warming. She was fired by Dr. Cebeci, the vice president of Tübitak, the above-mentioned Turkish government research organization.

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