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A pioneering deep technology factory is providing a new avenue for entrepreneurs, SMEs and innovators to transform their ideas into tangible products.

The primary mission of the factory is to empower those with innovative ideas by providing easy and free access to production and analytical tools in the emerging field of "deep technology."

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. 

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.

Clashes erupted between rival student groups on Oct. 17 at Ege University in the Aegean province of İzmir.