# Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awards

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.
| 1995 | Burhan Doğançay | Adalet Ağaoğlu | Şefika Kutluer |
| 1996 | Cahit Külebi | Yekta Kara | Arif Sağ |
| 1997 | Turhan Selçuk | Lütfi Ömer Akad | Hayrettin Karaca [tr] |
| 1998 | Yıldız Kenter | Fikret Otyam | Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) |
| 1999 | Nevzat Atlığ [tr] | Turgut Özakman | Rengim Gökmen |

### 2005

The following awards have been presented by Ahmet Necdet Sezer.
* Halil İnalcık
* Oktay Akbal [tr]
* Ferruh Başağa [tr]
* 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 | Yaşar Kemal | – | – | Architecture: Turgut Cansever, Music: Alaeddin Yavaşca [tr] |
| 2009 | – | Uğur Derman [tr] | Güler Sabancı on behalf of Sakıp Sabancı Museum | Cinema: Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| 2010 | – | – | Oya Eczacıbaşı on behalf of Istanbul Modern | History: Cemal Kafadar, Painting: Ergin İnan [tr] |
| 2011 | Sezai Karakoç | Hasan Çelebi | – | Criticism: Doğan Hızlan, Art history: Semavi Eyice |
| 2012 | Selim İleri | Ahmet Hatipoğlu [tr] | – | Archaeology: Zeugma ancient city and museum, Art history: Şükrü Hanioğlu |
| 2013 | İskender Pala | – | Union Of Historical Towns [tr] | Islamic sciences: Fuat Sezgin, Social sciences: Daron Acemoglu, Documentary: Bekir Karlığa [tr], Music: Ahmet Kaya |

### 2014-2024

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 | Hülya Koçyiğit | Niyazi Sayın | Alev Alatlı | Engin Akarlı | — | — | Institution: Turkey Diyanet Foundation Encyclopedia of Islam |
| 2015 | Münir Özkul | Orhan Gencebay | Rasim Özdenören [tr] | Mehmet Genç | Hüseyin Kutlu | Cemil Meriç | — |
| 2016 | Şener Şen | Erol Parlak [tr] | Mustafa Kutlu [tr] | Kemal Haşim Karpat | Feridun Özgören, Süheyl Ünver [tr] | — | — |
| 2017 | Yavuz Turgul | Göksel Baktagir [tr] | — | İlber Ortaylı | Ali Toy [tr] | Nurettin Topçu [tr] | Painting: Selahattin Kara [tr] |
| 2018 | Türker İnanoğlu | Erol Sayan [tr] | — | Mehmet İpşirli [tr] | — | Mehmet Akif Ersoy | Photography: İzzet Keribar [tr] |
| 2019 | Mesut Uçakan [tr] | MFÖ | Nuri Pakdil [tr] | Ahmet Yaşar Ocak [tr] | Fuat Başar [tr] | Ahmet Haluk Dursun [tr] | Painting: Devrim Erbil [tr], Architecture: Doğan Kuban |
| 2020 | Derviş Zaim | Özdemir Erdoğan | İbrahim Tenekeci [tr] | Social sciences: İsmail Kara [tr] Cultural History: Sadettin Ökten [tr] | — | Necmeddin Okyay [tr] | Collection: Mehmet Çebi [tr] |
| 2021 | Cüneyt Arkın | İdil Biret | Gürbüz Azak [tr] | Teoman Duralı | Calligraphy: Etem Çalışkan [tr] | Kemal Tahir | Visual arts: Alev Ebuzziya Used bookstore: İbrahim Manav [tr] |
| 2022 | Yılmaz Erdoğan | Ajda Pekkan | Yavuz Bülent Bakiler [tr] | — | Gülbün Mesara [tr] | Âşık Veysel Şatıroğlu | Painting: Prof. Dr. Süleyman Saim Tekcan [tr], Theatre: Ayla Algan, Science-culture: Prof. Dr. Hayreddin Karaman [tr], Caricature–animation: Varol Yaşaroğlu [tr], Gastronomy: Ömür Akkor and Yunus Emre Akkor, Dance-ballet: Tan Sağtürk, Architecture: Hilmi Şenalp, Craftsmanship: Sevan Bıçakçı |
| 2023 | Sami Şekeroğlu [tr] | Emel Sayın | Nazan Bekiroğlu | — | — | Attilâ İlhan, Barış Manço, Samiha Ayverdi, Muhsin Ertuğrul and İsmail Hakkı Uzunçarşılı | Science: Süleyman Uludağ [tr], Culture: Ali Birinci [tr], Art: İlhami Atalay [tr], Caricature: Hasan Aycın [tr], Digital arts: Refik Anadol, Architecture: Sinan Genim [tr] |
| 2024 | Göksel Arsoy | Ahmet Özhan | Fatma Karabıyık Barbarosoğlu [tr] | — | Salih Balakbabalar [tr] | Halit Refiğ | Science and Culture: Gönül Tekin [tr] and Günay Kut [tr], Theatre: Turan Oflazoğlu [tr], Librarian: Ramazan Minder [tr] |