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The Aydın Doğan Foundation was founded to realise the social responsibility projects of the Doğan family and the Doğan Group of Companies. The Foundation has established the Aydın Doğan Award in the name of its founder, to encourage and reward ceative minds in the fields of arts and sciences as well as in literature, and other cultural areas.
Every year the Aydın Doğan Award is awaded, in a different field, to one person. The Executive Board of the Foundation carefully determines the field for the award and a jury of competent and objective experts of the designated field is named. To date, the award has been given to individuals who have excelled in novel writing, social sciences and the humanites, visual arts, poetry, history, western classical music, archeology, Turkish folk music, urban architecture – urban texture, art, fashion design, sculpture, the theater and the cinema.
Since the beginning, the Aydın Doğan Foundation has been celebrating individuals who are at the peak of their careers and who have dedicated themselves to creativity and contibuted to humanity in the world of culture, the arts and sciences as well as in literature.
Aiming to further develop the culture of Turkish people and raise the quality of their lives, the Aydın Doğan Award is recognised as one of the most prestigious awards of Turkey.
The fields for the awards are determined in accordance with current issues and preferences of the Turkish public. Internationally recognised and honored members of the jury come from different disciplines.
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