Prof. Dr. Turan Öztürk won the 2023 ITU Science Award. (Basic Sciences field)
Prof. Turan Ozturk received his PhD degree from the University of East Anglia, UK, and then moved to the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK, as a postdoctoral fellow, where he developed a new method for the synthesis of fused 1,4-dithiin and thiophene rings from 1,8-diketones using Lawesson's reagent and P4S10.