2010 Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards

We organized in 2010 the fifth application of Turkish Culture Research and Technology Awards, which was realized in 2006 for the first time by our Foundation in order to support researches, works and services in Turkish culture and technology area.

We will grant 40.000 TL cash award for each to winning researcher and researcher group in Turkish culture and technology areas.

The owners of rewards, who were submitted for approval of the Foundation Board as a result of evaluations made by the Committee for the Elginkan Foundation Turkish Culture Research Award, and approved by the Foundation Board, are as follows:

The award was given to Prof. Dr. Kemal Eraslan, retired associate of Turkish Language and Literature of the Faculty of Letters of İstanbul University, and one of the notable persons of Turkology world for his services to the Turkish Language and Culture and his arts,

Prof. Dr. Günay Karaağaç, Head of the Turkish Language and Literature of Science-Literature Faculty of İstanbul Aydın University for his leading works in Turkish Language in particular, and also his studies regarding international Turkology,

Cahit Telci, Assoc. Prof. Dr. of Department of History of The faculty of Science and Literature of Celal Bayar University for his works titled "Ücra Yerde ve Deniz Kenarında, İhtiyatlu Mahalde Bir Şehir: Ayasuluğ",  which light subjects such as Turkish urban life, history of architecture and professions, and the award amount was shared among these persons.

The owners of rewards, who were submitted for approval of the Foundation Board as a result of evaluations made by the Committee for the Elginkan Foundation Technology Award, and approved by the Foundation Board, are as follows:

Technology Award was given to:

The project titled "Development of Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell (PEM YP)" prepared by the project team composed of Assoc. Dr. Tülay İNAN, Dr. Elif ÜNVEREN, Dr. Hacer DOĞAN, Assoc. Dr. Emel YILDIZ, Dr. Figen TÜRKSOY, Dr. Tuba Erdoğan BEDRİ, Dr. Nurşen TÜRDÜ, Prof. Dr. Atilla GÜNGÖR (Consultant), Nevin BEKİR, Zekai KORLU, Mustafa CANDEMİR and Handan KARAKALE from TÜBİTAK MAM, Institute of Chemistry, and to Assoc. Dr. Ali Doğan Bozdağ for his project titled as "Videoanaskop", and the award amount was shared among these person