Today, by the order of President Ilham Aliyev, the famous Turkish scientist, Nobel laureate in chemistry Aziz Sanjar was awarded the “Shokhrat” order. Before that, citizens of foreign countries were also awarded this order.
Modern.az presents the list of foreigners who were awarded the "Shokhrat" order in different years:
Hüseyin Kıvrıkoğlu - Turkish military figure, army general. He was the Chief of General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces.
Ilia II – Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia
Koïchiro Matsuura - Japanese diplomat, Director-General of UNESCO
Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu - Turkish politician, Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation from 2005 to 2014.
Abdulaziz bin Osman al-Tuwaijri - Arab politician, Director-General of ISESCO.
Iosif Davidovich Kobzon - Soviet and Russian singer, performer of songs in films, People's Artist of the USSR and Russia.
Michel François Platini - French footballer, coach and football official. Winner of the 1984 European Championship. The best French footballer of the XX century according to "France Football" magazine.
Boris Yevgenyevich Paton - Soviet and Ukrainian scientist in the field of metallurgy and metal technology, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor.
Lamiya Jannatzadeh
