{"id":36405,"date":"2011-06-23T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T07:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=36405"},"modified":"2014-01-06T09:53:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T07:53:04","slug":"turkish-olympiads-poetry-competition-finalists-stun-audience-georgia-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/06\/23\/turkish-olympiads-poetry-competition-finalists-stun-audience-georgia-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish Olympiads poetry competition finalists stun audience, Georgia wins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Foreign students in 9th International Turkish Olympiads poetry final leg won hearts of Turks with their what they called \u201csplendid performance\u201d on Wednesday night. A Georgian student became first in the competition.<\/p>\n

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Georgian (L) and Azerbaijani students got first and second places at Turkish Olympiads' poetry final night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The poerty final of the olympiads was at the Hali\u00e7 Convention Center in \u0130stanbul on Wednesday night and thousands of people, including senior officials, politicians, high-profile guests from media and arts attended the event.<\/p>\n

The Olympiads, organized by the International Turkish Education Association (T\u00dcRK\u00c7EDER), have brought hundreds of foreign students each year from Turkish schools established throughout the world. This year\u2019s International Turkish Language Olympiads, which include nearly 1,000 students from 130 countries, started with a spectacular opening ceremony at \u0130stanbul\u2019s Dolmabah\u00e7e Palace on June 15. As part of the Olympiads, the students are expected to compete in 13 categories, ranging from poetry to songs. Various events, all under the umbrella of the Olympiads, are being held throughout Turkey.<\/p>\n

The winner of the night was Leila Kurbanova from Georgia, who recited Mehmet Akif Ersoy\u2019s poem and the second place went to Mehbare Zeynalova from Azerbaijan. A student from Belarus received the third place.<\/p>\n

Prominent figures from Turkish literary world and authors also attended the event.<\/p>\n

\u0130stanbul Governor H\u00fcseyin Avni Mutlu presented medals of the students who became top three at night. Mutlu said in his speech that he greets those [teachers] who traveled all across the globe \u201cto meet people,\u201d referring to the slogan of this year\u2019s Turkish Olympiad.<\/p>\n

He said he send his gratitude to the teachers who make great efforts while suffering to teach science, culture and love to these what he termed \u201cbeautiful children.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author and Zaman daily columnist Ahmet Turan Alkan said Turkish Olympiads are now becoming to be an international brand slowly, adding that these students will become in the future Turkey\u2019s honorary ambassadors.<\/p>\n

Yavuz B\u00fclent Bakiler, a prominent Turkish author, said he thanks esteemed Turkish Islamic scholar Fethullah G\u00fclen for assisting in launching Turkish schools abroad and that greets with respect those who spent their energy for this.<\/p>\n

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Foreign students in 9th International Turkish Olympiads poetry final leg won hearts of Turks with their what they called \u201csplendid performance\u201d on Wednesday night. A Georgian student became first in the competition. The poerty final of the olympiads was at the Hali\u00e7 Convention Center in \u0130stanbul on Wednesday night and thousands of people, including senior […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":36407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939,209],"tags":[5980],"class_list":["post-36405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","category-georgia-caucasus","tag-turkish-olympiads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}