Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards
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Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards (Turkish: Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kültür ve Sanat Büyük Ödülleri) are the annual awards awarded by Presidency of Turkey.

List of awards
1995-1999
The following awards have been presented by Süleyman Demirel.[1]
| 1995 | Burhan Doğançay | Adalet Ağaoğlu | Şefika Kutluer |
| 1996[1] | Cahit Külebi | Yekta Kara | Arif Sağ |
| 1997 | Turhan Selçuk | Lütfi Ömer Akad | Hayrettin Karaca |
| 1998 | Yıldız Kenter | Fikret Otyam | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) |
| 1999 | Nevzat Atlığ | Turgut Özakman | Rengim Gökmen |
2005
The following awards have been presented by Ahmet Necdet Sezer.[1]
- Halil İnalcık
- Oktay Akbal
- Ferruh Başağa
- Ara Güler
- Sevda-Cenap And Music Foundation
2008-2013
The following awards have been presented by Abdullah Gül.
| Years | Literature | Traditional arts | Institute of Culture and Arts | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008[2] | Yaşar Kemal | – | – | Architecture: Turgut Cansever, Music: Alaeddin Yavaşca |
| 2009[3] | – | Uğur Derman | Güler Sabancı on behalf of Sakıp Sabancı Museum | Cinema: Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 2010[4] | – | – | Oya Eczacıbaşı on behalf of Istanbul Modern | History: Cemal Kafadar, Painting: Ergin İnan |
| 2011[5] | Sezai Karakoç | Hasan Çelebi | – | Criticism: Doğan Hızlan, Art history: Semavi Eyice |
| 2012[6] | Selim İleri | Ahmet Hatipoğlu | – | Archaeology: Zeugma ancient city and museum, Art history: Şükrü Hanioğlu |
| 2013[7] | İskender Pala | – | Union Of Historical Towns | Islamic sciences: Fuat Sezgin, Social sciences: Daron Acemoglu, Documentary: Bekir Karlığa, Music: Ahmet Kaya |
2014-2025
The following awards have been presented by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Traditionally, fidelity/loyalty awards are awarded posthumously.
| Cinema | Music | Literature | Social Sciences and History | Traditional Arts | Fidelity | Others | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014[8] | Hülya Koçyiğit | Niyazi Sayın | Alev Alatlı | Engin Akarlı | — | — | Institution: Turkey Diyanet Foundation Encyclopedia of Islam |
| 2015[9] | Münir Özkul | Orhan Gencebay | Rasim Özdenören | Mehmet Genç | Hüseyin Kutlu | Cemil Meriç | — |
| 2016[10] | Şener Şen | Erol Parlak | Mustafa Kutlu | Kemal Haşim Karpat | Feridun Özgören, Süheyl Ünver | — | — |
| 2017[11] | Yavuz Turgul | Göksel Baktagir | — | İlber Ortaylı | Ali Toy | Nurettin Topçu | Painting: Selahattin Kara |
| 2018[12] | Türker İnanoğlu | Erol Sayan | — | Mehmet İpşirli | — | Mehmet Akif Ersoy | Photography: İzzet Keribar |
| 2019[13] | Mesut Uçakan | MFÖ | Nuri Pakdil | Ahmet Yaşar Ocak | Fuat Başar | Ahmet Haluk Dursun | Painting: Devrim Erbil, Architecture: Doğan Kuban |
| 2020[14] | Derviş Zaim | Özdemir Erdoğan | İbrahim Tenekeci | Social sciences: İsmail Kara Cultural History: Sadettin Ökten |
— | Necmeddin Okyay | Collection: Mehmet Çebi |
| 2021[15] | Cüneyt Arkın | İdil Biret | Gürbüz Azak | Teoman Duralı | Calligraphy: Etem Çalışkan | Kemal Tahir | Visual arts: Alev Ebuzziya Used bookstore: İbrahim Manav |
| 2022[16] | Yılmaz Erdoğan | Ajda Pekkan | Yavuz Bülent Bakiler | — | Gülbün Mesara | Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu | Painting: Süleyman Saim Tekcan, Theatre: Ayla Algan, Science-culture: Hayreddin Karaman, Caricature–animation: Varol Yaşaroğlu, Gastronomy: Ömür Akkor and Yunus Emre Akkor, Dance-ballet: Tan Sağtürk, Architecture: Hilmi Şenalp, Craftsmanship: Sevan Bıçakçı |
| 2023[17] | Sami Şekeroğlu | Emel Sayın | Nazan Bekiroğlu | — | — | Attilâ İlhan, Barış Manço, Samiha Ayverdi, Muhsin Ertuğrul and İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı | Science: Süleyman Uludağ, Culture: Ali Birinci, Art: İlhami Atalay, Caricature: Hasan Aycın, Digital arts: Refik Anadol, Architecture: Sinan Genim |
| 2024[18] | Göksel Arsoy | Ahmet Özhan | Fatma Karabıyık Barbarosoğlu | — | Salih Balakbabalar | Halit Refiğ | Science and Culture: Gönül Tekin and Günay Kut, Theatre: Turan Oflazoğlu, Librarian: Ramazan Minder |
| 2025[19] | — | Yalçın Tura | — | — | — | — | Science and culture: Süleyman Seyfi Öğün, Art: Yalçın Gökçebağ, Anatolian archaeology: Fahri Işık, Photography: Ali Jadallah |