{"id":243135,"date":"2019-12-23T15:16:13","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=243135"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T10:16:13","slug":"urdu-poet-amjad-islam-amjad-wins-prestigious-turkish-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/urdu-poet-amjad-islam-amjad-wins-prestigious-turkish-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Urdu Poet Amjad Islam Amjad Wins Prestigious Turkish Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Renowned Pakistani writer and poet Amjad Islam Amjad was awarded the prestigious \u201cNecip Fazil International Culture and Art Award<\/em>\u201d in a ceremony held in Istanbul, Turkey. This Pakistani is the only foreign recipient of this award and it turned into a Pak-Turkey love fest real quick.<\/p>\n

The ceremony is organized to honor the literary heritage of Turkish poet and philosopher Necip Fazil Kisakurek. This year Turkish President Tayyip Erdogen and other leading literary figures also attended the award on December 21st.<\/p>\n

Congratulating Amjad, President Erdogen addressed the ceremony and said:<\/p>\n

\u201cAmjad Islam Amjad is one of the most important poets in modern Urdu literature and a prominent figure in Pakistan\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan is a cherished friend of Turkey. Typically relationships are based on mutual benefit. But the Turkey-Pakistan friendship is based on sincerity and solidarity,\u201d he further added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In his acceptance speech, Amjad thanked the jury for bestowing the award upon him. He said<\/p>\n

\u201cTurkey is close to every Pakistani\u2019s heart,\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adding that receiving the award in the presence of the Turkish president was a huge honor for him. He didn’t keep his admiration for Erdogan a secret.<\/p>\n

\u201cI consider Erdogan the greatest leader of the Muslim world in present times,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pakistan\u2019s Ambassador to Turkey Syrus Qazi stated:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe award is an acknowledgement of Amjad\u2019s outstanding contributions to literature\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also highlighted the love, affection, and respect among the Turkish people and leadership for Pakistan and its people.<\/p>\n

Amjad Islam Amjad was the only foreign recipient of the award in 2019. Whereas, Dr Mehmet Akif Ayd\u0131n and Co\u015fkun Y\u0131lmaz won the award for knowledge research and Professor U\u011fur Derman won the Necip Faz\u0131l Award of Respect.<\/p>\n

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via Anadolu Agency<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Renowned Pakistani writer and poet Amjad Islam Amjad was awarded the prestigious \u201cNecip Fazil International Culture and Art Award\u201d in a ceremony held in Istanbul, Turkey. This Pakistani is the only foreign recipient of this award and it turned into a Pak-Turkey love fest real quick. The ceremony is organized to honor the literary heritage of Turkish poet and philosopher […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":243139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1298,2199],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-243135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture","8":"category-featured"},"wps_subtitle":"Another win for Pakistan","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design40-364x205.png",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design40-758x426.png",758,426,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design40.png",1000,562,false]},"author_name":"Munazza Mehmood","categories_name":["Culture","Featured"],"title_text":"Urdu Poet Amjad Islam Amjad Wins Prestigious Turkish Award","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=1298,2199&exclude=243135","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243135"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=243135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}