Supreme Education Board

Türkiye is at a crossroads, and the next elections will show which way the country will follow, the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader has said, calling on the citizens to vote in the next elections.

Academics and intellectuals who publicly called on the Turkish government to end security operations in southeastern Anatolia and return to the table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue are the "conscience of the country," a co-chair of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) has said.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has strongly reacted to a petition signed by more than 1,000 local and international academics calling on the Turkish government to end the security operations being committed in southeastern Anatolia and to return to table for talks to resolve the Kurdish issue, describing the signatories as "ignorant." After an urgent meeting on Jan.

The new head of the country?s top science body has been assigned after a reshuffling process within the institution.

Professor Ahmet Arif Ergin has become the new head of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜB?TAK). His assignment decision was published June 11 in the Official Gazette.