Strategic Vision Awards

2019

Ersin TATAR

Ersin TATAR

Ersin Tatar was born in 1960 in Nicosia. He completed his high school education in England, and attended Cambridge University where he graduated in 1982. He was an active member in the Cypriot Diaspora community in Turkey, and served as chair of the Istanbul Turkish Cypriot Cultural Association between 1997 and 2001.

İŞKUR

İŞKUR

The first legal regulation regarding public employment services in our country is Labour Law with the date 1936 and the number 3008 which is our first law. Said Law had set forth forbidding private offices executing agency business for seeking jobs and employees and establishing the Institution of Providing Jobs and Employees in three years which could enable that this service would be executed by the government.

Prof. Dr. M. Şükrü HANİOĞLU

Prof. Dr. M. Şükrü HANİOĞLU

Şükrü Hanioğlu is the Garrett Professor in Foreign Affairs and Professor of Near Eastern Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Istanbul University in 1976 and 1981, respectively, and taught courses at Istanbul, Bosphorus, Michigan (Ann Arbor) Universities, University of Wisconsin (Madison), and University of Chicago before joining Princeton faculty.

Ömer ÖZKAYA

Ömer ÖZKAYA

1972, born in Central Anatolian province of Tokat. He followed special courses on Bible, Torah and Quran. He worked in various news outlets and TV channels. He was director of intelligence and news departments. He published Turkish version of France’s Le Monde Diplomatique. He wrote for Gunes daily. He is still the editor-in-chief of Turque Diplomatique, general director of Eurasia Strategic Researches Center based in Istanbul, while he also writes for London-based Asharq Al-Awsat.

Ahmed RIZA Bey

Ahmed RIZA Bey

A politician, thinker, writer (Birth 1859, Istanbul – R.I.P. 26 February 1930, Istanbul, he was son of Ali Bey who known as British Ali, because he was closely interested in the British. His mother was an Austrian lady. After receiving a European education from his family, he graduated from Galatasaray Sultanisi (High School).

Büyükelçi Serdar KILIÇ

Büyükelçi Serdar KILIÇ

Ambassador Kılıç previously served as Ambassador to Japan (2012-2014) and he was the Secretary-General of National Security Council of The Republic of Turkey from 2010 to 2012. Ambassador Serdar Kılıç was appointed as the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United States in April 2014.

Arif ŞAYIK

Arif ŞAYIK

He was born in 1972 in Çorum. Arif ŞAYIK graduated from Istanbul University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of Public Administration in 1995. He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from the Indiana University School of Environmental and Public Affairs in the United States and an another master’s degree in Economic History from Marmara University.