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The battle for Turkey's soul

By Debora Mackenzie

7 April 2009

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A Turkish science magazine’s pulling of a cover story on Darwin could be a taste of struggles to come, but it may also be a good sign

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TURKEY is the Islamic world’s leading secular democracy. It spends a large proportion of its income on scientific research and . Turks like science: one of the country’s top-selling magazines is the popular science monthly (“Science and Technology”), published by the country’s scientific funding agency TÜBITAK. The best-seller is a science monthly for kids.

But Turkey…

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