Turkey has already blocked Richard Dawkins' website, and now…. (via):

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.

The article was stripped from the March issue of the widely read popular-science magazine Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) just before it went to press. The magazine, which is published by Turkey's research funding and science management organization, TÜBİTAK, also switched a planned cover picture of Darwin for an illustration relating to global warming.

In an interview with Milliyet, one of Turkey's highest-circulation daily newspapers, the editor of Bilim ve Teknik, Çiğdem Atakuman, confirmed that she had been removed from her post over the affair, but declined to comment further because she is still a TÜBİTAK employee.

Turkey is also home to Adnan Oktar, aka Harun Yahya, author of Atlas of Creation, who believes he should take the credit for defeating the theory of evolution.

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4 responses to “Censoring Darwin”

  1. DaninVan Avatar
    DaninVan

    Next; Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. I mean, he was Jewish, right? What possible good could come from that…
    On the other hand, we’d like the ‘bomb’, please. 😉

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  2. Luis Enrique Avatar
    Luis Enrique

    Mick
    thought you might be interested in this book about Hackney (review in The Economist)

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  3. Mick H Avatar
    Mick H

    Thanks, but yes, I’ve got that in my Amazon shopping basket already. I may wait for the paperback, I don’t know. Iain Sinclair’s stuff seems to be more and more a parody of itself lately. I enjoyed “Downriver” and “Lights Out For the Territory”, but I’ve lost some of my enthusiasm recently.
    Shouldn’t judge really before reading though.

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