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İstanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Urdu Dili ve Edebiyatı Ana Bilim Dalı Başkanı Prof. Dr. Celal Soydan (solda), Pakistan’a hizmetleri nedeniyle Sitara-i-Quaid-i-Azam, Sitara-i-Imtiaz devlet nişanına layık görüldü. İstanbul’da düzenlenen törende Pakistan Cumhurbaşkanı Arif Alvi (sağda), ülkesine olağanüstü hizmetleri için Türk bilim insanı Soydan’a teşekkür ederek ödülünü verdi. ( Mehmet Murat Önel – Anadolu Ajansı )
ISTANBUL, (MANEND NEWS): President of Pakistan Dr. Arif Alvi
conferred Pakistan’s civil awards upon two Turkish dignitaries at a
special investiture ceremony in Istanbul on Sunday.
President Dr. Arif Alvi conferred Sitara-e-Imtiaz upon Dr. Selami Kiliç
for his services to Pakistan. Dr. Selami participated in the relief
activities after 2005 devastating earthquake in Pakistan. After the
2010 floods in Pakistan, Dr. Selami Kiliç helped establish a field
hospital in Dera Murad Jamali and carried out damage and needs
assessment surveys in various areas of Sindh and Baluchistan. He was
also at the forefront of the initiative to establish the Recep Tayyip
Erdogan Hospital at Muzaffargarh.
Dr. Selami is currently working as the head of the Foreign Affairs
Department of the Turkish Ministry of Health. He received his medical
education from Quaid-e-Azam Medical College Bahawalpur. His deep
love and regard for Pakistan has always remained a distinguishing
feature of his professional career.
The President Pakistan also conferred the award of Sitara-i-Quaid-i-
Azam upon Prof. Dr. Celal Soydan, in recognition of his outstanding
contribution in the field of Services to Pakistan. Prof. Dr. Celal Soydan,
currently head of Urdu Department in Istanbul University, has made
remarkable contribution for the promotion of Urdu language and
literature in Turkey in his career spanning three decades.
Prof. Celal Soyadan has written 20 books and published over two
dozen articles and papers in Urdu and Turkish in various national and
international journals. Due to his efforts, the study of Iqbaliat in
Turkey has been further enriched. Both his PhD ad M.A. thesis were on
Iqbal. He has translated into Turkish language the classical works of
Allama Iqbal such as Armughan-e-Hijaz, Zarb-e-Kaleem, Bal-e-Jebreel,
Bang-e-Dara, the Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, etc. He
has played a prominent role in highlighting the special place that Iqbal
had in his heart for Turkey, its people and its luminaries.