List of People Who Have Been Granted Distinguished Service Award by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1989

Feyyaz Tokar

Retired Ambassadors and Spouses on behalf of the late Ambassadors

Dieter A.Schmidt

Pierre Dubois

Nejat Seyfullah Taşhan

İlhan Çevik

Itans Seidel Stiftung Foundation

Dr. John P.McGovern

1990

Gunnar Valfrid Jarring

Robert Arzano

1991

Şarık Tara

Dr. Nejat F.Eczacıbaşı

William Hale

Prof. Dr. Mümtaz Soysal

Jak Kamhi

Prof. Halil İnalcık

Prof. Geoffrey Lewis

1997

Şakir Eczacıbaşı

Prof. Anna Masala

1998

Wim Antoon Mateman

Sir Frederic Bennett

Takashi Morinaga

Toshiyuki Fujiwara

Cengiz Aymatov

1999

Cha Hak Koo

Syed Yusuf

Albert de Vidas

2000

Prof. Dr. Talat Halman

Prof. Dr. İhsan Doğramacı

2001

Süleyman Demirel

Necati Münir Ertegün

Turkish diplomats who saved the lives of Jews during the Nazi holocaust. They are all mentioned with the then titles.

Consul General Necdet Kent,

Consul General Selahattin Ülkümen

Consul Namık Kemal Yolga

Those who have been wounded during their duty in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or their relatives.They are all mentioned with the then titles.

Ambassador Coşkun Kırca

Ambassador Vecdi Türel

Ambassador Doğan Türkmen

Consul Kaya İnal

Counsellor Yurtsev Mıhçıoğlu

Counsellor Cavit Demir

Counsellor Deniz Bölükbaşı

First Secretary Hasan Servet Öktem

Second Secretary Gökberk Ergenekon

Atasay Mıhçıoğlu, Son of Counsellor Yurtsev Mıhçıoğlu

Attaché Hüseyin Kerimoğlu,

Attaché Tahsin Güvenç

Sevil Özmen, Spouse of Attaché Galip Özmen

Kaan Özmen, Son of Attaché Galip Özmen

Attaché Nilgün Keçeci

Driver Necati Kaya

Prof. Dusanka Lukaç

Hugo Gobbi

Prof. Pierre Oberling

Prof. Kraus Kreiser

Karl Grabbe

Prof. Ekrem Causevic

Michele Nicolas

Marthe Bernus-Taylor

Annie Berthier

Jacques Tobies

Teresa Batesti

Hubert Astier

Beatrix Suale

Jean Paul Desroches

Nevin Menemencioğlu

Henri Adam

Hemachandra Wijeratne

Dr. Lee Si-Hyung

Emile Noel

David Levi

Francisco Uribe Laso

Nihat Boytüzün

Alexendre Misk

2002

Ahmet Ertegün

Elias Mendoza Habersberger

Prof. Marc Waelkens

Kırgızistan-Türkiye Manas Üniversitesi

Erik Cornell

Sture Theolin

Henrik Liljegren

Mustafa Arhan

Şeref Arhan

Sabahattin Arhan

Dr. Andrew Mango

Prof. Salahi Sonyel

Dr. Sachihiro Omura

Ahmet Çalık

Erol Tabanca

Prof. Manfred Korfmann

Edzard Reuter

Michael Ackermann

Saduman Gürbüz

Dr. Aydın Yurtçu

Demir Delen

Natalya Baranova

Prof. Jean Paul Roux

Gökşin Sipahioğlu

Dr. Demir Fırat Önger

Jean Pierre Salvetat

Sandra Fei

Prof. Gyorgy Hazai

Union of Jews from Türkiye in Israel

Bruce Ruxton

Vecdi Raşidov

Hans Christian Krüger

Heinrich Klebes

Otto von Habsburg

Sim Jae-Duck

Nüzhen Önen

Sevim Önen

2003

Dr. Elias Mendoza Habersberger

Feni Atatürk High School in Dakka

2005

Prof. Jaemahn Sulh

Dr. Fatih Birol

Prof. Dr. Eric-Jan Zurcher

Antony Burgmans

2006

Dr. Till Becker

Prof. Dr. Nurhan Atasoy

Dr. Filiz Çağman

Dr. Nazan Ölçer

2007

Prof. Masanori Naito

Prof. Dr. Oktay Aslanapa

Ord. Prof. Pedro Martinez Montavez

2008

Ly Seppelin Ehin

2009

Mehmet Aykut Eken

Harry Blackley

Mohammed Al-Wohaibi, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman

2010

Prof.Bernt Brendemoen

Consul General Abdulwahab Mahmoud Sheikh (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)

2014

Ambassador Nabil Maarouf (State of Palastine)

Ambassador Muhammad Haroon Shaukat (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)

2016

Honorary Consul General of Türkiye in San Francisco Bonnie Kaslan

2017

TURKSOY Secretary General Dusen Kasseinov

Director-General of UNESCO Irina Bokova

Golf Player Justin Rose

2018

Ambassador Ömer Engin Lütem

Ambassasor Bilal Şimşir

Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan

Turkologist Prof. Dr. Stanislav STACHOWSKI

Turkologist Prof. Dr. Tadeusz MAJDA

2019

Dr. Eusebio Lea Spengler

2020

Sami Kohen

Yeşim Meço Davutoğlu

2022

Baghdad Amreyev

2024

Ambassador Şükrü Tufan