Hosted by Hacettepe University, the Turkish National Open Access Workshop took place in Ankara, Turkey, from November 8-9, 2012. The workshop was part of the Mediterranean Open Access Network (MedOANet) project. The national workshop on Open Access drew about 200 participants from various sectors (two thirds represented research performing organizations (RPOs), 15% public institutions and 20% publishers, database producers, aggregators and students).