Hacettepe University

Academics from top universities in Turkey have told the Education Ministry that evolutionary theory is excluded from curriculum "only in Saudi Arabia," after the ministry removed the subject from its formal new curriculum. 

Cigarette packages will no longer be displayed in shops selling tobacco products and new regulations on their sales will be implemented, according to a statement by the Health Ministry.  

The statement also said cigarette brands will no longer be visible on packages according to the new regulation. 

Ankara's Hacettepe University will set up a center for research and treatment of 6,000 rare diseases that are common in Turkey due to consanguineous marriages. 

​According to a law that came into force in 1983, abortion was legalized in Turkey. Research conducted in 2013 by Ankara-based Hacettepe University revealed that 14 percent of the women in this country have had at least one abortion in their lives.

A total of 4000 people gathered on the southern beach in the Bulgarian city of Varna on Saturday, setting a Guinness World Record for the largest human DNA helix.

A woman has the constitutional right to file a complaint against a person concerning sexual assault charges, no matter whether that person had been acquitted by the judiciary or not, a Turkish court has ruled.

A woman has the constitutional right to file a complaint against a person concerning sexual assault charges, no matter whether that person had been acquitted by the judiciary or not, a Turkish court has ruled.

A large number of Turks continue to eye a fresh start in a new country, as recent data has ranked Turkey fourth among nations which experience major emigration, continuing a decades-long trend.

Russia's National Research Nuclear University (MEPhI) has canceled planned training programs with four Turkish universities, which had been part of a multibillion nuclear power plant development deal between the countries that is now under threat following Turkey's Nov. 24 downing of the Russian jet. 

The Freedom Research Association, a relatively new Ankara think-tank run by Hacettepe University political science professor Bican ?ahin, organized a conference on the rule of law in Istanbul on Oct. 15.