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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 →

Prof. Dr. Lüst’s Letter to Nihat Ergün

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →