The publisher of Turkey's most popular science magazine, Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology), has resolved a headline-hitting dispute over the magazine's apparent censorship of an article about Charles Darwin (see Nature 458, 259; 2009). The row was politically charged because the magazine is published by TÜBİTAK, the national science-funding agency.

The agency's vice-president, Ömer Cebeci, withdrew a cover and 16-page feature devoted to Darwin just before the March issue went to press. He claimed that the editor, Çiğdem Atakuman, had secretly changed previously agreed content, and he told her that she would be transferred to another department. TÜBİTAK has now issued a statement confirming its commitment to science and scientific literacy in the country, where many people do not believe in evolution. Atakuman will remain as editor of the magazine.