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Worst-hit areas in Turkey were reduced to rubble. Erhan Sevenler/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

February 14, 2023

Earthquake in Turkey exposes gap between seismic knowledge and action – but it is possible to prepare

Louise K. Comfort, University of Pittsburgh; Burcak Basbug Erkan, Middle East Technical University, and Polat Gulkan, Başkent University

Turkey has repeatedly attempted to improve its earthquake preparedness. So what went wrong?

Anatolian water frogs (*Pelophylax spp*) could become locally extinct in parts of Turkey due to over-harvesting as food. Kerim Çiçek

June 12, 2020

More people eat frog legs than you think – and humans are harvesting frogs at unsustainable rates

H. Resit Akcakaya, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); C. Can Bilgin, Middle East Technical University, and Kerim Çiçek, Ege University

Frogs are harvested as food by the millions every year. A new study shows that uncontrolled frog hunting could drive some populations to extinction by midcentury.

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Burcak Basbug Erkan
Associate Professor at Department of Statistics, Middle East Technical University
C. Can Bilgin
Professor of Biology, Middle East Technical University

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