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Western nations are not fulfilling their obligation to provide international centres of learning for scholars from developing nations. Professor Abdus Salam, co-winner of the 1979 Nobel prize in physics, makes a plea for new international universities of scientific teaching and research run by United Nations organisations.
Research geared to local problems could initiate a much needed boost to the Turkish economy. But Turkey's scientists and policy-makers are still intent on pursuing western science and the transfer of technology from the West writes Ziauddin Sardar.