The Order of Merit of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Liyakat Nişanı) is awarded by the

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with approval of the

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upon the proposal of the relevant members of the Cabinet considering the opinions of the

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and the Atatürk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History. The order is awarded to foreign scientists, academics, artists and intellectuals in recognition of their contributions to international promotion and celebration of the

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in science and

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Recipients of the Order of Merit

* 8 June 1990 – : Joseph Jacob Heinotten * 8 June 1990 – :

Clemens Holzmeister Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a prominent Austrian architect and stage designer of the early twentieth century. The Austrian Academy of Fine Arts listed his life's work as containing 673 projects. He was the father of ...

* 25 October 1996 – : Rupert Wilbrandt * 25 October 1996 – : Wilhelm Leitner * 25 October 1996 – :

Annemarie Schimmel Annemarie Schimmel (7 April 1922 – 26 January 2003) was an influential German Orientalist and scholar who wrote extensively on Islam, especially Sufism. She was a professor at Harvard University from 1967 to 1992. Early life and education ...

* 28 August 1997 – : Geza Feher * 28 August 1997 – : Gerö Gyözü * 28 August 1997 – : Geza David * 20 November 1997 – :

Ninette de Valois Dame Ninette de Valois (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, ...

* 14 January 1998 – :

Jean-Paul Roux Jean-Paul Roux, PhD (5 January 1925 – 29 June 2009) was a French Turkologist and a specialist in Islamic culture. He was a graduate of the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, the École du Louvre, and the École ...

* 14 January 1998 – : Robert Mantran * 14 January 1998 – : Yuzo Nagata * 14 January 1998 – :

Shoichiro Toyoda is a Japanese retired business executive who served as chairman of Toyota Motor Corporation between 1992–1999,Toyota Honorary Chairman as well as chairman of the influential beginning in May 1994 through May 1998. Under Toyoda's supervision, ...

* 14 January 1998 – : Isao Yonekura * 14 January 1998 – : Kamil Veli Nerimanoğlu * 14 January 1998 – : Tofig Ismayilov * 14 January 1998 – : Justin McCarthy * 14 January 1998 – :

Stanford Shaw Stanford Jay Shaw (5 May 1930 – 16 December 2006) was an American historian, best known for his works on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkish Jews, and the early Turkish Republic. Shaw's works have been criticized for their lack of factual accurac ...

* 14 January 1998 – :

Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis, (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specialized in Oriental studies. He was also known as a public intellectual and political commentator. Lewis was the Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near E ...

* 14 January 1998 – :

Andrew Mango Andrew James Alexander Mango (14 June 1926 – 6 July 2014) was a British BBC employee and author. Life He was born in Istanbul, one of three sons of Alexander Mango, an Italian-Greek barrister and his White Russian wife Adelaide Damonov; the ...

* 14 January 1998 – :

Geoffrey Lewis Geoffrey Lewis may refer to: * Geoffrey Lewis (actor) (1935–2015), American character actor * Geoffrey Lewis (scholar) (1920–2008), British professor of Turkish * Geoffrey Lewis (philatelist), Australian philatelist * Geoffrey W. Lewis (died ...

* 14 January 1998 – :

Omeljan Pritsak Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak ( uk, Омелян Йосипович Пріцак; 7 April 1919, Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic – 29 May 2006, Boston) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvar ...

* 14 January 1998 – : Roziya Galiyevna Mukminova * 14 January 1998 – : Bubina Oruzbayeva * 14 January 1998 – : Edhem Tenişev * 14 January 1998 – : Gubeydolla Aydarov * 13 February 1998 – : Bert G. Fragner * 13 February 1998 – : Oraz Yağmur * 14 February 1998 – : André Clot * 5 October 1998 – : Augusto Sinegra * 9 October 1998 – : Patrick Kinross * 9 October 1998 – : Nasrullah Mübeşşir el-Tırazi * 9 October 1998 – : Hüseyin Mucib el-Mısri * 1 January 1999 – : Abdimalik Nisanbayev * 4 January 1999 – : İbrahim El-Mouelhy * 3 June 2008 – : Sachihiro Omura * 20 October 2008 – :

Lars Johanson Lars Johanson (born 8 March 1936 in Köping, Sweden) is a Swedish Turcologist and linguist, an emeritus professor at the University of Mainz, and docent at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, University of Uppsala, Sweden. He has been ...

* 20 October 2008 – :

András Róna-Tas András Róna-Tas (born 30 December 1931) is a Hungarian historian and linguist. He was born in 1931 in Budapest. Róna-Tas studied under such preeminent professors as Gyula Ortutay and Lajos Ligeti, and received a degree in folklore and easter ...

* 20 October 2008 – : Robert Dancoff * 20 October 2008 – : Walter G. Andrews * 20 October 2008 – : Viktor Guzev * 11 June 2014 – : Evangelia Balta * 11 June 2014 – :

Suraiya Faroqhi Suraiya N. Faroqhi (born 1941 in Berlin, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member sta ...

* 11 June 2014 – :

Cornell Fleischer Cornell Fleischer is an American historian who is the Kanuni Suleyman Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies at the University of Chicago. Education and career Fleischer received his PhD from Princeton University in 1982. After leaving ...

* 11 June 2014 – :

Feridun Hamdullahpur Feridun Hamdullahpur (born ) is the chancellor of International Business University. Previously, he was the president and vice-chancellor of the University of Waterloo. Hamdullahpur was named the sixth president of the University of Waterloo in Mar ...

* 11 June 2014 – : György Hazai * 11 June 2014 – :

Machiel Kiel Machiel Kiel (born February 28, 1938) is a Dutch professor of art history. Narrow specialist in Ottoman architecture in the Balkans. For more than half a century after the Second World War, he worked on the grounds, restorations and with the Ot ...

* 11 June 2014 – : Fehim Nametak * 11 June 2014 – : Dimitri Mihailoviç Nasilov * 11 June 2014 – :

Julian Raby Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (gi ...

* 11 June 2014 – : Claudia Römer * 11 June 2014 – :

Tadashi Suzuki is a Japanese avant-garde theatre director, writer, and philosopher. He is the founder and director of the Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT), and organizer of Japan’s first international theatre festival (Toga Festival). With American director An ...

* 11 June 2014 – : Abdeljelil Temimi * 11 June 2014 – : Abudurexıti Yakufu * 11 June 2014 – :

Feroz Ahmad Feroz Ahmad (born 1938) is a retired academic, historian and political scientist who taught at different universities, including the University of Massachusetts Boston, Tufts University, Harvard University, Columbia University and Yeditepe Univer ...

References

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