Paul Modrich

Teknofest, Turkey's largest technology and aerospace event, ended on Sept. 26 with breathtaking closing ceremonies and the dazzling coordinated performances of the Turkish air forces.

The five-day event held at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport included a host of activities such as air shows with warplanes and helicopters, seminars and summits, as well as competitions and fairs.

Turkey's Nobel laureate in chemistry Aziz Sancar on Sept. 24 attended the top-notch technology event Teknofest, and said that it "made me really proud."

"I came here to promote science and technology in Turkey and the Turkish world. What I saw here really made me proud and encouraged me," he said in his address in Istanbul.

Turkish-American scientist Aziz Sancar, the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, has advised cancer patients to stay in Turkey and not go to the U.S., stressing the importance of family support in overcoming cancer. 

"I tell cancer patients: 'Do not come to America,'" Sancar said on May 8 during a program broadcast on the U.S.-based Voice of America radio station.

After two full days, a sentiment that was stuck in my throat came pouring out? Professor Aziz Sancar was receiving his Nobel Prize at the ceremony? Mozart's "Turkish March" was being played?

At that moment, his route to success passed through my mind. 

Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar, the 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry, is set to take his award to the mausoleum of Turkey's founding father, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, in order to express his "indebtedness" to the modern republic, daily Hürriyet has reported. 

Turkish scientist Aziz Sancar, the 2015 Nobel laureate in chemistry, received his prize at a ceremony held in Stockholm, on a day that Tunisia's National Dialogue Quartet were also presented their Nobel Peace Prizes in Oslo.