Istanbul Technical University

Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z, an electrical engineer by profession, has been suspended by his colleagues in the Chamber of Energy Engineers (EMO) over his role in Turkey?s worst-ever mining tragedy last year.

The EMO suspended Y?ld?z for six months for his ?attitude and acts related to his profession? during and after the Soma disaster, in which 301 miners died in May 2014.

As the wounds of the recent coal mine accident that killed 18 workers in the Central Anatolian heartland of Karaman are still fresh, the Energy Ministry has given licenses for three new mines in the same area, which is estimated to have a lignite coal reserve of 1.83 billion tons.

Eight Turkish universities were listed this year among the 100 top universities in the "BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings," with the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) in Ankara taking third place in the list.

ODTÜ was also named the world's 85th best university in the 2015 rankings.

Some 160 individuals, including top businesspeople such as Doğuş Holding’s Ferit Şahenk, daily Hürriyet Chairwoman Vuslat Doğan Sabancı, Koç Holding’s Ali Koç, Çukurova Holding’s Mehmet Emin Karamehmet, along with former top soldiers and journalists, were wiretapped with fake names in 2008 and 2009.

Three Turkish engineers have developed a system that produces electricity from intestinal gases collected from cows in barns. They aim to enable farmers to create additional revenue from this energy, which will be generated in 4,000 barns.

After facing an internal investigation over an email sent from her university account, Ceyda Sungur, who became known around the world as the "woman in red” during last year’s Gezi Park protests in Turkey, now faces a faculty investigation for hanging teachers’ union posters calling for a strike.

Ceyda Sungur, a research assistant at Istanbul Technical University who become known across the world as “the woman in red” due to an iconic photograph at the start of last year’s Gezi protests, is facing an internal faculty investigation over an email sent from her university account.

A new board of experts from Istanbul Technical University will reexamine the digital data in the Balyoz (Sledgehammer) coup plot case, according to an interim court ruling.

The previous expert reports on digital data in the case were rejected by the Anatolian 4th Heavy Penalty Court in Istanbul, and a new board of experts will reexamine the data.

Over 2,000 visitors from all around Turkey and abroad gathered in the village of İslamköy in the western town of Isparta on Oct. 26, for the opening of the “Democracy and Development Museum” by former President Süleyman Demirel, four days ahead of his 90th birthday.

The collapse of a brand new ski-jumping complex at the Palandöken ski resort in eastern Turkey, which resulted in a landslide, was caused by basic engineering failures, such as the construction of two artificial ponds near the top of the landing slope, experts have said.