TASAM Strategic Vision Awards have been granted as always to various eminent persons this year for the 6^th time. There were 8 different categories: Strategic Vision Award Offered for Statesman, Politician, Bureaucrat, Scientist, Corporation, Businessman, Artist and Journalist-Writer. The awards were also given to who make serious endeavors for bringing Turkey over contemporaneous civilization level.

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In 2011, Strategic Vision Awards are offered to eminent persons from Turkey such as: Deceased Former Prime Minister Prof. Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Deputy Undersecretary of Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Yaşar Halit Çevik, Academician - Writer Vamık Volkan, Comptroller General Dr. Recai Akyel, President of KARSAN Board of Directors İnan Kıraç and Cartoonist-Actor Hasan Kaçan.

CHAIRMAN ŞENSOY: “Turkey’s aim to become a regional power & a global actor depends on the change in the human resources’ qualıty”

Süleyman Şensoy the chairman of TASAM mentioned that as we are living on one of the breaking points of history, we need institutions and administrations that have strategic vision more than usual, therefore it is crucial to honour the individuals and institutions which have “strategic vision”. He said “The main theme of these awards is to support the development model that is based on human resources”.

Chairman Şensoy added that TASAM is also offering awards to foreign persons, statesmen and institutions who achieve Turkish people’s amity on the basis of friendly relations and cooperation.

The Award Ceremony performed on 29^th of December 2011, at Ortaköy Princess Hotel.

6^TH TASAM STRATEGIC VISION AWARDS CATEGORIES AND NAMES OF 2011

Strategic Vision Award offered for Scientist Doç. Dr. Ekrem DEMİRLİ, İ.Ü. Lecturer, Faculty of Theology; Istanbul University Prof. Dr. Büyükelçi (E) Ali Engin OBA, Lecturer, Çağ University Prof. Dr. Bekir KARLIĞA, Chairman, National Coordination Committee of the Alliance of Civilizations, Bahçeşehir University Prof. Dr. Bülent ARAS, Lecturer, Istanbul Technical University | Chairman of SAM Prof. Dr. Vamık VOLKAN, Academician - Writer Strategic Vision Award offered for Businessman Hasan ÇAPAN, Chairman of Avrasya Medical Health Products İnan KIRAÇ, KARSAN Inc. Chairman of KARSAN Inc. Recep KONUK, Chairman of Konya Şeker Inc. Strategic Vision Award offered for Artist Şule GÜRBÜZ – Recep GÜRGEN, Dolmabahçe Palace Art Museum Artists Esin AFŞAR Deceased Singing Artist - Writer - Actress Hasan KAÇAN, Caricaturist - Actor Strategic Vision Award offered for Bureaucrat Özgür ÖZASLAN, Undersecretary at Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry Ambassador Yaşar Halit ÇEVİK, Deputy Undersecretary at Foreign Affairs Ambassador James A. Larocco, Director of NESA ( USA ) Kenan ÇİFTÇİ, Governor of Kütahya Dr. Recai AKYEL, Comptroller General Ahmad Mohamed Ali AL-MADANI, President of the Islamic Development Bank Prof. Dr. Hüsnü Salih GÜDER, Rector of Mustafa Kemal University Strategic Vision Award offered for Politician Tahir AKYÜREK, Mayor of Konya Metropolitan Sadrettin KARADUMAN, Member of GAB, Saadet Partisi Prof. Dr. Yılmaz BÜYÜKERŞEN, Mayor of Eskişehir Metropolitan Strategic Vision Award offered for Journalist - Writer Avni ÖZGÜREL, Writer, Radikal Newspaper Yaşar ÇAĞBAYIR, Researcher - Writer Mehmet Şevket EYGİ, Writer, Millî Gazete Strategic Vision Award offered for Corporation Kızılay, Turkey Red Crescent Foundation AKUT, Search and Rescue Foundation Strategic Vision Award offered for Statesman Abdullah GÜL, President of the Republic of Turkey Prof. Dr. Necmettin ERBAKAN, Deceased Prime Minister

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