ÇANKAYA MUNICIPALITY WILL CELEBRATE THE 96TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE REPUBLIC WITH VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT WILL TAKE FOR A WEEK

22 October 2019 Tuesday 10:36

Çankaya Municipality, which will celebrate the 96th anniversary of the Republic with a series of activities as the "Republic Week" between 25-29 October. Çankaya Municipality will also organize an “Award Ceremony for Those Who Add Value to the Republic” for the first time this year.

Çankaya Municipality will bring together the historian İlber Ortaylı with Çankaya people during the celebration week which will start with Çankaya Republic Conferences. Journalists Çiğdem Toker, Fikret Bila, Murat Yetkin, Deniz Zeyrek, İsmail Saymaz and former Chairman of the Republican People's Party Altan Öymen will also be the guests at the conference series.

Çankaya Municipality is preparing to celebrate the 96th anniversary of the Republic. The “Award Ceremony for Those Who Add Value to the Republic” will also be organized for the first time this year in the celebration program, which will take place between 25-29 October, under the name of the “Republic Week”.

Çankaya Municipality will host the journalists Çiğdem Toker and Murat Yetkin and the former chairman of the Republican People's Party, Altan Öymen, on October 26th, under the title “What the Republic makes us think” during the celebration week which will start with the “Çankaya Republic Conferences” to be held at Nazim Hikmet Cultural and Art Center. Çankaya Municipality will bring together Historian İlber Ortaylı at the conference on the Historical Accumulation of the Republic on October 27th at 13.00 and journalists Fikret Bila, İsmail Saymaz ve Deniz Zeyrek at the conference on the Actual Questions and Problems of the Republic of Turkey at 17.00.

THE “AWARD FOR THOSE WHO ADD VALUE TO THE REPUBLIC”

Çankaya Municipality will also organize the “Award Ceremony for Those Who Add Value to the Republic” for the first time this year.

An award will be presented to Altan Öymen for his duty that he fulfilled in CHP in the light of Atatürk's words “I have two great works; one is the Republic of Turkey, another is the Republican People's Party”, his 50 years of contribution to political life, and for his contribution to the press and the social memory.

An award will be presented to Eskişehir Metropolitan Mayor Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Büyükerşen for pioneering the construction of Eskişehir as a Republican city, for his Republican management, raising up thousands of students, and for adding values to university life, culture and art.

An award will be presented to Prof. Dr. İlber Ortaylı for his contributions on transferring his studies on the historical accumulation of our history and our Republic to the new generations and his contributions of youth to love their history and making people to understand our history.

An award will be presented to Sözcü newspaper because of its stance that defends the demands of the people without fear and intimidation in the most difficult times of the country, in an environment where the press is under great pressure, which has never stepped back from laying claiming to the Republic despite its trial.

An award will be presented to Cumhuriyet newspaper, the greatest supporter of Atatürk's revolutions and our Republic, the freedom school of our press which paid a price for the independence of our country with its many intellectuals, for continuing to struggle with the principles and values of the day it was founded with perseverance and determination.

An award will be presented to The Language Association due to bringing together many intellectuals against the trivializing of the Turkish Language Institution with the September 12 coup, which is one of the most valuable institutions founded by the Great Atatürk, and for laying claiming to our Turkish Language and its struggle on this issue.

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