The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards and Commemoration Ceremony was held at the Sabancı Center on April 10, 2025. As part of the ceremony, the late Sakıp Sabancı, Honorary Chair of Sabancı University, was commemorated on the 21st anniversary of his passing.
This year’s theme of the awards program was “Re-aligning Values in a Transforming World Order: What needs preserving, reevaluating, and redefining?”.
The Special Jury Prize went to Political Science Professor Wendy Brown.
The 2025 Article Award of the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards were given to Dr. Uğur Aytaç from the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University, Professor Cenk Özbay from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University, and Dr. Vafa Ghazavi from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
Cenk Özbay 