TÜBİTAK—Scientific Body or Political Tool?
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