Ege University

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Some 56 new aquatic species have been discovered in Turkey's Mediterranean, Aegean and Marmara seas, scientific works at Ege University Faculty of Aquaculture have shown.

'Urban Poverty in Turkey: Development and Modernisation in Low-Income Communities' by Burcu Şentürk (IB Tauris, 196 pages, £64)

Archaeological excavations on the Yassıtepe mound in İzmir's Bornova district have unearthed 5,000-year-old grape seeds that are believed to be the seeds of the Bornova Misket grape. 

The findings were put on display at the Yeşilova mound visitor center following a ceremony. 

The 30th International ?zmir Festival will be organized between May 17 and June 25 this year with 10 concerts, three of which will be open to the public, at venues including the Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center, the ?zmir State Theater Konak Stage, the Library of Celsius, the Kültürpark Open Air Theater and the Ephesus Ancient Theater. 

A former professor at Ege University in Turkey's Aegean city of ?zmir, who was jailed for preventing a female student with a headscarf from entering a faculty building, was released on April 16 after spending four-and-a-half months in jail. 

An investigation has been launched into students at a university in Turkey's Aegean province of ?zmir for inflating balloons, planting trees and dancing the halay, a traditional folk dance.

Rival student groups clashed at Ankara University on Feb. 26, leaving a security officer and a student injured.

Police built a barricade between the groups to end the clashes in which students attacked each other with stones and sticks, as the buildings in the Faculty of Languages, History and Geography were evacuated.

A former professor at Ege University in Turkey’s Aegean city of İzmir will enter jail on Nov. 27 to serve his two-year sentence for preventing a female student with a headscarf from entering the faculty building, becoming the first individual to be sentenced according to the law.