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George M. Fuller
To: Nihat Ergün, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Turkey c/o Emin Asilturk Fax: +90 312 219 67 45 Tel: +90 312 219 69 69 E-mail: emin.asilturk@sanayi.gov.tr Dear Minister, I would like to bring to your attention the unique role … Continue reading
Antoine Van Proeyen
Dear Minister N. Ergun, We heard with surprise that there are plans to shut down the Feza Gürsey Institute for fundamental science. This institute has an important role in the international community of physics to educate young scientists and to … Continue reading
Farhad Ardalan
Gursey Institute has been a singular achievement of the region. IPM – Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences and Sharif University
Dieter Lüst et al.
Prof. Dr. Lüst’s Letter to Nihat Ergün
Ganapathy Baskaran
To Minister of Science Industry and Technology Mr. Nihat Ergün, Respectable Minister, Greetings. I am sending this email requesting you to continue nurturing and growing Feza Gursey Institute. For a growing nation the need for high level science can not … Continue reading
Natalia Klein
Please find attached the petition by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI) in Waterloo, Canada, in which faculty, researchers and students express their strong support in maintaining the Feza Gursey Institute (FGI). Thank you for your consideration, Natalia Klein … Continue reading
Piotr Pragacz
I have just got information that Feza Gursey Institute will be closed. In the present letter, I shall try to explain, how unfortunate this decision is. I am a Polish scientist but my relations with Turkish mathematicians are quite close: … Continue reading
Guillaume Bossard
Istanbul deserves to have its own theoretical physics institute, and not just an isolated team of theorists choked within an applied science institute. CNRS researcher CPhT Polytechnique, CNRS
Wolfgang Lerche
This move would be very unfortunately for science in Turkey and I also do not understand the logic. Turkey just joined CERN, and what sense does it make to simultaneously undercut this effort by reducing the support for particle physics … Continue reading
Kellogg Stelle
It is disheartening that, just at a time when Turkey is aspiring to become a full member of CERN (a development strongly supported by the European scientific community), TUBITAK decides essentially to cancel the only international research center devoted to … Continue reading
Elias Kiritsis
Elias Kiritsis Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7 Laboratoire APC Bâtiment Condorcet, Case 7020 75205 Paris Cedex 13, FRANCE Prof. Nüket Yetiş President of TUBITAK cc. Prof. Kayhan Ulker Téléfax: +33 1 57 27 60 71 Tél: +33 1 57 27 60 … Continue reading
Antal Jevicki
The Institute serves a unique role in enhancing Science not only in Turkey but the whole area. It is unique in fostering international collaboration involving scientist from different parts of the world. It served as a beacon of Theoretical Science … Continue reading
Bernard de Wit
I think an institution as the Gursey Institute offers excellent scientific opportunities for Turkey and for the region. I do not have sufficient insight in the motives behind the plan to close the Gursey Institute. It is hard to see … Continue reading
Athanasios Lahanas
It is of paramount importance that Fundamental Science and all institutes serving it must be kept alive for the progress and prosperity of the humanity. Athanasios Lahanas Athens University, Physics Department
Augusto Sagnotti
I wish that Politics, everywhere and in Turkey in particular, could pause to meditate on the key role of fundamental research, and in wider sense of culture altogether, for the present and for the future of our world. Professor of … Continue reading
Bernard Teissier
Dear Minister, Dear Mrs. Yetis, July 26, 2011 I visited the Feza Gürsey Institute last year on the occasion of a CIMPA meeting on commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. I formed at that time a quite positive impression of the … Continue reading
Piotr Śniady
Dear Minister Nihat Ergun, Minister of Science, Technology and Industry Dear Dr. Hüsnü Tekin, Deputy Undersecretary, Ministry of Science, Technology and Industry Dear Professor Nuket Yetis, TUBITAK President, I have heard the news that the administration of TUBITAK decided to … Continue reading
Francesco Iachello
The Feza Gursey Institute is a leading institution contributing greatly to the development of fundamental research in nuclear, particle and mathematical physics. Its preservation enhances the possibility for Turkish scientists to be an integral part of international science. Francesco Iachello … Continue reading
Christoph Kopper
Professor Nukhet Yetis Director General of TUBITAK Ataturk Boulevari 221 06100 Kavaklidere Ankara, Turkish Republic Dear Professor Yetis, Over the past fifteen years the Feza Gursey-Institute has become an important institution in mathematical physics. It was on its way to … Continue reading
Bernard Helffer, President of the SMF, French Mathematical Society
Paris, le 25 juillet 2011 Nihat Ergun Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Bilim, Sanayi ve Teknoloji Bakani Eskisehir Yolu 154 ANKARA -TURKEY Dear Minister, I am writing as President of the SMF (French Mathematical Society), to express our deep … Continue reading
Terence Tao
[From his Google+ microblog : https://plus.google.com/114134834346472219368#114134834346472219368/buzz%5D The blog linked below is organising an effort to prevent the planned closure of the Feza Gursey institute for fundamental sciences (the only research institute in Turkey devoted to mathematical physics) by TUBITAK (the … Continue reading
Ivan Fesenko
Dear colleagues, I am writing in relation to the proposed decision of TUBITAK to dissolve FGI and merge it (as a small sub-division) to the National Cryptology and Information Security Institute located in Gebze, a small industrial town close to … Continue reading
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Dear My Excellencies, Dear Friends, Feza Gürsey Institute is a Center-of-Excellence and represents a high future potential both in academical-research sense and in educational-social sense. When I was invited there, by Dr. Kursat Aker, I learned to know its mathematics … Continue reading
Philip Kow-Lung Chang
Ref. Save Feza Gursey Institute As one of Prof. Gursey’s Ph.D. students from Yale University, I started my academic career at METU 44 years ago and had the chance to get acquaintance with the colleagues and students at that time. … Continue reading
Alain Lascoux
To the attention of the Honorable Nihat Ergun, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey Dear Minister, Receiving the news about the closing down of the Feza Gursey Institute, I take the liberty to write to you. Institutes like … Continue reading
Mark A. Kon
Dear Minister Ergun, I have been appalled to hear about the shameful treatment of the Feza Gursey Institute (FGI) in Istanbul. This has been a leading institution in the world in Physics and Mathematical research, representing an achievement extending the … Continue reading
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Ramamurti Shankar
Feza Gursey was a world renowned scholar and a colleague of mine at Yale where he held the prestigious Josiah Willard Gibbs Professorship. He inspired a whole generation of physicists, many of them from Turkey. He was a role model … Continue reading
Noel Smyth
Dear Minister Ergun, I have just found out that there is a proposal to close the Feza Gursey Institute in Istanbul. This is a most worrying proposal as the Feza Gursey Institute is a leading centre for physics and mathematics … Continue reading
A joint letter to Nüket Yetiş from Hidenori Sonoda et al.
Prof. Dr. Nüket Yetiş President of TUBITAK Dear Prof. Dr. Nüket Yetiş: We are writing this letter to express our strong support for the Feza Gursey Institute (FGI) in Istanbul. We think it important to keep FGI as an indepen- … Continue reading
A joint letter to Nüket Yetiş from David Brydges et al.
Dear Professor Yetis, Our understanding is that the present mission of the Feza Gursey Institute will end on Friday July 15, and it will henceforth be subordinate to an applied program under new leadership. We are writing to strongly urge … Continue reading
Francesco Calogero’s letter to Nihat Ergün
To the attention of the Honorable Nihat Ergun, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of Turkey Sent by e-mail to: nihat.ergun@tbmm.gov.tr Dear Sir: I am writing to you in my capacity as member of the Advisory Board of the Basic … Continue reading
Ludwik Dabrowski
Dear Prof. Yetis, It is with deep astonishment that I learn from our colleagues that the administration of TUBITAK has decided to close down the Feza Gursey Institute (FGI), Turkeys only institute devoted to research in theoretical physics and mathematics, … Continue reading
Laiachi El Kaoutit Zerri
His excellency, Minister NIHAT ERGUN, On behalf of Granada’s algebra department members, we ask you please to consider the request below. Let me please tell you, Mr. Minister, that apparently the fundamental sciences, are today indulging a trip out of … Continue reading
Ramesh Sreekantan
Dear Professor Nuket Yetis, TUBITAK President I was shocked and saddened to learn about the closing and moving of the Feza Gursey Insitute. I visited FGI twice – once in 2008 and then again in 2009 – and had very … Continue reading
Itamar Procaccia
Mr. Nihat Ergun, Minister of Science, Industry and Technology Dear Minister, I take the liberty to write to you directly in light of the news that I hear from Turkey about the closing down of the Feza Gursey Institute. I … Continue reading
H.C. Peter G.O. Freund
Dear Minister Ergün, I found it highly disconcerting to learn of the planned move of the famous Feza Gürsey Institute (FGI) from its current location on the Bogazici University campus in Istanbul to a campus in Gebze. For all practical … Continue reading
Henk Spruit
MAX-PLANCK-INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK Postfach 1317 D-85741 Garching bei München Telefon 089 30000–0 _____________________________________________________________________________________ Prof. Nüket Yetiş Turkish Science & Technology Research Council Prof. H.C. Spruit henk@mpa-garching.mpg.de (089) 30000–2220 20th July, 2011 Dear Dr. Yetis Allow me to comment on the … Continue reading
Jyotishman Bhowmick
To the director of TUBITAK, For reasons that we fail to understand, TUBITAK did not renew the protocol with the Bogazici University in 2008. Since then, a steady attrition of the staff followed as the contracts of part-time participants were … Continue reading
Dieter Van den Bleeken
Dear Professor Nüket Yetiş, news has reached me that in the future both the location and scientific mission of the Feza Gursey Institute (FGE) might drastically change. Although I do not presume to question or influence any of TUBITAK’s policy … Continue reading
Georgy Sharygin
Dear professor Nuket Yetis! Your Excellency minister Nihat Ergun! I am sending you this letter, trying to attract your attention to the situation with Feza Gursey Institute. Nowadays, when many Mathematical institutes around the world are being closed due to … Continue reading
A joint letter to Nükhet Yetiş and Nihat Ergün from Helene Esnault et al.
to the Minister of Science, Technology and Industry, Nihat Ergun to the TUBITAK President Professor Nuket Yetis At the end of March 2011, we organized a joint workshop on Algebraic Cycles at Feza Gursey Institute. We gave a series of … Continue reading
Sibel (Barut) Kusimba, the daughter of the late Asım Barut
To whom it may concern: I’m the daughter of Asım Barut, a theoretical physicist, deceased in 1995, who loved his country very much. Born in 1927, he left Turkey as a young man to study in the ETH in Switzerland, … Continue reading
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Giovanni Landi
To the President of TUBITAK, Prof. Nuket Yetis To the Turkish Minister of Science, Technology and Industry, Nihat Ergun I am told by some turkish scientific friends that the Feza Gursey Institute would be attached to the Informatics and Information … Continue reading
Christoph Kopper
15 July 2011 Dear Professor Yetis, Over the past fifteen years the Feza Gursey-Institute has become an important institution in mathematical physics. It was on its way to join other important european institutions like the Newton-Institute (UK), the Institut Poincare … Continue reading
Gerald A. Goldin
Today I received the distressing news that the Feza Gursey Institute based at Bogazici University in Istanbul, is to be effectively downsized or closed. Kindly correct me if this information is not correct. I know that as a scientist from … Continue reading
Francesco D’ANDREA
To the director of TUBITAK, For reasons that we fail to understand, TUBITAK did not renew the protocol with the Bogazici University in 2008. Since then, a steady attrition of the staff followed as the contracts of part-time participants were … Continue reading
Support from particle theorists working in Japan
Dear Colleagues, The particle theory group (Prof. C.S. Lim, Prof. M. Sakamoto, and myself) at Kobe University in Japan has created a web site http://www.phys.sci.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hetweb/fgisave/ to collect signatures for the letter of appeal posted on the site. We have requested … Continue reading
Gabriella Böhm
To the director of TUBITAK, For reasons that we fail to understand, TUBITAK did not renew the protocol with the Bogazici University in 2008. Since then, a steady attrition of the staff followed as the contracts of part-time participants were … Continue reading
Claude ROGER
Monsieur le Ministre: Je me permets de vous adresser ce courriel pour vous faire part de ma grande préoccupation devant la suppression annoncée de l’Institut Feza Gursey, qui joue un rôle éminent dans le développement de la physique théorique et … Continue reading
Rainald Flume
Minister Nihat Ergun, Ankara,Turkey Your Excellency, I hear with consternation about the decision to close down the Feza Gursey Institute for mathematics and theoretical physics, an institution of international reputation – a decision, which will certainly be deeply deplored within … Continue reading
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