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The Institute of Forensics aims to educate
graduate students with a degree in medicine,
science, or social sciences on the subject of
examining scientific evidence using international
standards and contemporary approaches, to conduct
research in forensic medicine, and to raise a new
generation of academics. To this end, the Institute
channels its graduate students, according to their
branches, to a department
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in medicine, science,
and social sciences and steers them to take one
of the six groups of courses and specialize in
one of the following fields: Criminalistics, Effective
Investigation, Forensic Molecular Biology, Criminal
Justice, Criminology, and Forensic Psychology.
The Institute, established in 1983, requires six
terms’ work for an M.A. and twelve terms’ work
for a doctorate degree.
The Institute of Forensics has been educating
experts coming from diverse backgrounds like
medicine, physics, pharmaceutics, psychology, in
order to serve the judiciary system. It also offers
advance degrees to a number of judges, prosecutors,
lawyers, and the graduates of police academies,
to educate them in the theory and practice of
forensic medicine and to teach them the use of
contemporary technologies in the gathering of
legal scientific evidence. The Institute also serves
as consultant to the Ministries of Interior and
Justice and gives support to on-job training of
their staff.
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The Institute of Forensics is renowned in Turkey
for the quality of its staff and students as well
its range of courses, both theoretical and practical.
It is well equipped technically to investigate
scientific evidence. Since the academic year 2000-
2001, the Institute has a partially unencrypted
on-line education service.
Our Institute serves as an educational model to
various universities abroad like Ludwig Maximillian
University, Munich, Bari University, and the
State University of California, Los Angeles.
The Institute of Forensis, as a member of
European Network of Foresnic Science Institutes,
has
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been conducting joint projects with the
following institutions: the Institute of Forensics
in Munich University, the Institute of Forensic
Psychology in Berlin University, the Genom
Technology Centre in Stanford University, and
the United Nations Drug Control and Crime
Prevention Programme
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