![Demonstrators protest against the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TUBITAK] over the exclusion of articles commemorating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday from a scientific journal published by TUBITAK, in Ankara, Turkey, March 2009.](https://web.archive.org/web/20111227061822im_/http://media.voanews.com/images/reuters_turkey_protests_science_230_march2009.jpg "Demonstrators protest against the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [TUBITAK] over the exclusion of articles commemorating Charles Darwin's 200th birthday from a scientific journal published by TUBITAK, in Ankara, Turkey, March 2009.")
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Issue exemplifies concerns by academics that ideas of Darwin increasingly are being undermined by the Islamic-rooted government
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