The Turkish professor and the Pakistani honorary consul in Izmir had been offered with the Pakistan Civil Award by Pakistan’s ambassador in Turkiye at a ceremony Wednesday.
Ambassador Yousaf Junaid offered the award to Turkish dignitaries professor Asuman Belen Özcan and Cahit Yaşar Eren on behalf of Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi at an investiture ceremony held at Pakistan House in Ankara.
President Alvi had conferred the celebrated Sitara-e-Imtiaz award upon Özcan, the chairperson and head of the Department of Urdu Language and Literature at Ankara University, and the Sitara-i-Pakistan award upon Yaşar Eren, Honorary Consul General of Pakistan in Izmir.
The awards had been conferred upon the Turkish dignitaries in recognition of their distinguished providers to Pakistan and the strengthening of Pakistan-Türkiye relations.
Speaking on the event, Ambassador Junaid prolonged the heartiest felicitations to the recipients of the Pakistan Civil Awards on this well-deserved honor. He recommended their invaluable providers to Pakistan and their contributions towards the additional strengthening of Pakistan-Türkiye ties.
Noting that centuries-old Pakistan-Türkiye fraternal relations are embedded of their frequent non secular, cultural, linguistic and non secular heritage, the ambassador stated this blessed relationship “has been nurtured by honest devoted efforts of our earlier generations. Now the duty lies with us to additional strengthen it and cross this sacred belief to our future generations.”
Ankara Governor Vasip Şahin, Turkish dignitaries and distinguished folks from the business fraternity attended the ceremony.
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