{"id":42776,"date":"2010-11-02T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/11\/02\/turkish-president-wins-2010-chatham-house-prize\/"},"modified":"2010-11-02T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:41:00","slug":"turkish-president-wins-2010-chatham-house-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/11\/02\/turkish-president-wins-2010-chatham-house-prize.html","title":{"rendered":"Turkish President Wins 2010 Chatham House Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Turkish President Abdullah G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00fc<\/span>l has been voted the winner of the 2010 Chatham House Prize, an award presented by the UK-based institute to a politician each year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'; min-height: 16px\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">&#8220;President G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00fc<\/span>l has been voted the winner of this year&#8217;s Chatham House Prize because of his qualities as a national, regional and international leader. I warmly congratulate the President on this award which recognizes his accomplishments and acknowledges the growing influence he has achieved for Turkey,&#8221; said Chatham House Chair Dr. DeAnne Julius, in a release on the institute website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">Among G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00fc<\/span>l&#8217;s accomplishments, the release names the Turkish leader&#8217;s &#8220;leading role, along with his Armenian counterpart, in initiating a process of reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">G<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u00fc<\/span>l will be invited to collect the award and a scroll signed by Chatham House Patron, Her Majesty The Queen, at a ceremony in London on November 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The Chatham House Prize is an annual award presented to the statesperson deemed by members of the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House to have made the most significant contribution to the improvement of international relations in the previous year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Arian AMU'\">The other nominees for this year&#8217;s prize were Christine Lagarde, Finance Minister, France and Stjepan Mesi<span style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal 'Lucida Grande'\">\u0107<\/span>, President of Croatia (2000-10).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish President Abdullah G\u00fcl&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[10715,12632,12633,10714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}