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Recipients of Culture and Grand Awards announced

Published by Hurriyet on Fri, 10/30/2015 - 23:01

This year's recipients of the Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards honoring Turkish culture and art, are announced The Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards 2015 will be presented to Münir Özkul in the field of cinema, Orhan Gencebay in the field of music, Rasim Özdenören in the fields of literature, Mehmet Genç in the field of social sciences and history and Hüseyin Kutlu in the fie

Ottoman nostalgia and the reality

Published by Hurriyet on Wed, 12/24/2014 - 23:01

According to the current discussion and advice that is flying around these days, you would think that whoever learns Ottoman will be able to read all the calligraphy while deciphering the epitaphs on gravestones at the speed of an alphabet book, as well as understand and explain them.

Actress Hülya Koçyiğit leads list of Presidential Award winners

Published by Hurriyet on Wed, 10/29/2014 - 13:17

The recipients of this year’s Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards were announced Oct. 29, with famous actress Hülya Koçyiğit leading the list of winners.

Koçyiğit took home the award in the field of cinema as Niyazi Sayın won in the field of music, Alev Alatlı was honored in literature and Professor Engin Akarlı was selected for history.