Akdeniz University

Türkiye's population, like the rest of the world, is aging and new social arrangements should be made to address the emerging needs of a shifting demographic, experts have said.

The population aged 65 and above reached around 8,722,000 people in 2023, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK).

Since the beginning of the war between Ukraine and Russia, there has been an intensive brain drain from the countries to Türkiye, Özlenen Özkan, the rector of Akdeniz University, has said.

Within the scope of the brain drain Türkiye has been giving abroad, the tables have recently started to turn back, albeit on a small scale.

Turkey's first double-arm transplant recipient has made a call to all the citizens of the country to support organ transplantation, implying the surgery he had in 2010 as a "rebirth."

"I am 39, but my arms are 12-years old," Cihan Topal, the former patient who had his name written in the history of medicine, told the Demirören News Agency on Jan. 17.

The Antalya Gulf is under invasion by a growing number of a fish species arriving from the Red Sea that is replacing local unique ones off the coast of the Mediterranean province of Antalya, an Akdeniz University professor of aquaculture has warned. 

Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean city of Antalya is on alert as nine students have been confirmed to have contracted measles. 

Twenty-seven out of 69 cancer patients received the wrong Total Body Irradiation (TBI) treatment at Akdeniz University Hospital in the Mediterranean province of Antalya between 2009 and 2016, a detailed investigation into the patients’ records has revealed.

A two-month-old Mediterranean monk seal, which was found when it washed ashore dead in the southeastern province of Antalya on Nov. 24, is set to be exhibited at Akdeniz University’s Faculty of Aquaculture Museum, Doğan News Agency has reported.

A research center at Akdeniz University in the Mediterranean province of Antalya has included “Ufology and Exopolitics” in its latest curriculum, in a bid to prepare for possible contact with visitors from outer space.

A three-year-old girl with disabilities, who made it to the headlines on May 4 for being taught how to walk with a home-made mechanism by her father, has been promised to be treated by the Akdeniz University Hospital in the southern province of Antalya.

Turkish doctors at Antalya's Akdeniz University performed the country's third double arm transplant in an 11-hour operation on Feb. 2, with initial reports indicating the recipient is in good medical condition.