The Turkish Council for Scientific and Technical Research (TÜBITAK) issued on March 24, 2017 a decree addressed to all Turkish peer reviewed scientific journals, including the international periodicals listed by the Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM). This text requires that the journals "reconsider the make-up of their editorial boards and their scientific councils, and take all adequate measures to evict the academics who were banned from public servi

Campaigners are stepping up their fight for answers ahead of the first anniversary of the brutal murder of Cambridge student Giulio Regeni. The Italian PhD student went missing in Cairo in January 2016, while conducting research into independent trade union activity. His mutilated body was found by a roadside on January 25, showing signs of torture and abuse. Questions have been raised in parliament and within the EU, and several high-profile vigils have been held in Cambridg