The 10th Media Awards Ceremony of Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), which is traditionally held every year, was held. The award ceremony held at the Mehmet Akif Ersoy Conference Hall of the university was attended by the art, football and media community. Industry connoisseurs who came together with the students had the opportunity to share their experiences one-on-one with the students.
While Ali Limoncu received the Award for Adding Value to Turkish Sports; Bülent Emin Yarar received the Lifetime Honor Award in Art. The Lifetime Honor Award in Sports was given to Şansal Büyüka. Büyüka stated that it is very valuable to receive awards with the votes given by the students. In addition; TV Channel of the Year is TV8, Manager of the Year - Çağdaş Atan, while the Honorary Award in Music was given to Yavuz Bingöl. İhlas News Agency was selected as the Best News Agency.
Valuable names were awarded in 70 categories in 10 different fields, including honor, theatre, television, sports, newspaper/magazine, radio, cinema, music, digital and television series.
Awards were presented in a total of 70 categories
The awards in 7 categories were presented by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees Abdülkadir Gayretli, Rector Prof. Dr. Bahri Şahin and university lecturers.
Yavuz Bingöl: "I had the opportunity to share my life experience and experiences with young people"
Yavuz Bingöl said, ''I would like to thank students first. It is very important for us to receive awards from young people. In particular, the results are even more important when they come out of the surveys. These things are symbolic for us but motivate our work. I am very happy to be here with the young people today. On this occasion, I shared my experiences and life experiences with them. We are all actually students. Our student life never ends. That is why I always try to come together with young people."
Yavuz Bingöl: “I did a lot of work, but I always went back to music”
Yavuz Bingöl stated the following, "If you want to be successful, t is necessary to persevere and hard work. From the moment you decide on the work you do, you have to go after it. In other words, it is necessary not to quit and to continue working. I did a lot of work, but I always went back to music. I care about following my dreams.”
“We make our young people think 'I want to be like that in the future too”
Abdülkadir Gayretli, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, said, "Our Media Awards Ceremonies have become a classic at our university. We will arrange it from now on too. Our purpose here is to host our superheros in our school and to bring them together with our students and teachers. We aim for our students to keep their dreams, ideals and goals great through them. It is very valuable for us that students follow their ideals and progress by keeping their dreams big. We make students think that each of them should have an idol and that ’ I want to be like him/her in the future' ".
"It is very valuable for us to show that we know the value of our artists"
Stating that this ceremony has now become a classic, Rector Prof. Dr. Bahri Şahin also added:
“We hosted very valuable names with the Media Awards Ceremony, I am sure that our students here will have these awards one day. Our students choose media stars and the art world who come here today. It is very valuable for us to bring together media, sports and art stars with our students and to show that we know the value of our artists with the awards given."
