{"id":4932,"date":"2012-11-29T22:33:54","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T20:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/?p=4932"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T15:09:15","slug":"zeugma-museum-presidential-awards-4932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/zeugma-museum-presidential-awards-4932\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeugma Museum honored with presidential awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zeugma-museum-award.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4933\" title=\"Zeugma Museum honored with presidential awards\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/zeugma-museum-award-280x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"220\"><\/a>The Zeugma Museum in the southeastern Anatolian province of Gaziantep, famous for its vast collection of ancient mosaics, was also recognized at Thursday&#8217;s ceremony at the \u00c7ankaya presidential palace.<\/h1>\n<p>Author Selim \u0130leri, Professor \u015e\u00fckr\u00fc Hanio\u011flu and musician Ahmet Hatipo\u011flu were honored with this year&#8217;s Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts at a ceremony on Thursday in Ankara.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by President Abdullah G\u00fcl, the Presidential Grand Awards in Culture and Arts are given in various fields of the arts each year to recognize and encourage contributions to Turkish culture by Turkish and\/or foreign individuals and\/or institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 awards acknowledge achievements in the fields of literature, history, traditional music and archaeology.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130leri was deemed worthy of the award for \u201cserving as a bridge between the traditional and new through his works \u2026 in which he blends his love for literature with his passion for \u0130stanbul,\u201d according to the award statement. Hanio\u011flu, a professor of Ottoman history, was selected for \u201cdeveloping an original account of history that carries Turkish history to a universal level,\u201d while Hatipo\u011flu, a performer of classical Turkish music and Sufi music, was honored for \u201cenriching Sufi and classical Turkish music with his original performance style\u201d and thus helping these genres gain wider recognition. The Zeugma Museum was deemed deserving of an award for \u201cexhibiting Turkey&#8217;s archaeological wealth on a global level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Thursday&#8217;s ceremony, President G\u00fcl said cultural and artistic activities play a crucial part in the improvement of a country and added that \u201cachievements in those fields never remain local\u201d but belong to the whole of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very pleased to see that the importance of culture and art is being recognized more and more in Turkey,\u201d the president added.<\/p>\n<!-- Either there are no banners, they are disabled or none qualified for this location! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zeugma Museum in the southeastern Anatolian province of Gaziantep, famous for its vast collection of ancient mosaics, was also recognized at Thursday&#8217;s ceremony at the \u00c7ankaya presidential palace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"jnews_post_split":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7867,7877,137,7],"tags":[7875,7883],"class_list":["post-4932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turkey","category-politics","category-sectoral","category-tourism","tag-istanbul","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8421,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4932\/revisions\/8421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turizmtatilseyahat.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}