Istanbul University

A Muslim youth group has held an "anti-Santa" rally in Istanbul, a city where, ironically, Christians ruled hundreds of years ago. The Istanbul University branch of the group, Anatolia Youth Association (AGD), held a rally on Dec. 30 at Beyaz?t Square. Around 100 people held posters against celebrations held during New Year's Eve on the grounds that it is a Christian tradition.

The Finance Ministry has dispatched officials to conduct tax inspections after villagers in the eastern Turkish province of Bingöl sold a number of meteorites they found, though the villagers fiercely object to the move and say the meteorites were "sent by God."

Y?ld?z Holding Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Head of Non-Food Businesses Dr. Cem Karaka?, who had a key role in the company?s global expansion, has been appointed as the group?s executive deputy chairman as of October, said the company in a press release on Oct. 14 

If, in this country, we could convert the energy we spend on absurd discussions to, for instance, electricity, most probably we would not have the need for Russia to build a nuclear power plant for us. 

The debates that erupted with Aziz Sancar?s sharing the Nobel Chemistry Prize this year are all in this category. We have been talking ridiculous nationalism for two days. 

A Turkish-born scientist made the headlines yesterday for winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, while also raising the question whether it would be possible had he stayed in Turkey instead of moving to the United States.

A Turkish-American DNA scientist is among the three names to win this year's Nobel Prize in chemistry, the award-giving body announced on Oct. 7.

Aziz Sancar, Sweden's Tomas Lindahl, and the U.S.-based Paul Modrich won the prize for work on mapping how cells repair damaged DNA.

Excavation work has been continuing on Van's Çavu?tepe Castle, which dates back to the Urartian era and is one of the most popular tourist attractions in the province.

The doyen of Turkish archaeology, Professor Halet Çambel, who died on Jan. 12 last year aged 98, was honored by Google with a doodle for her birthday on Aug. 27. 

Ömer Fatih Sayan was appointed the head of the Information and Communications Technologies Authority (BTK) on Aug. 25, ahead of a key telecommunications tender on Aug. 26.

The secret of coralline and turquoise colors in ?znik?s famous tiles has yet to be discovered, but works have started on historical kilns aimed at researching their origin This year?s archaeological excavations have started in the 600-year-old kilns found in the town of ?znik in the northwestern province of Bursa.