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Why did Aziz Sancar dedicate his Nobel Prize to Atatürk?
Aziz Sancar is a Turkish-American scientist who on Dec. 10 received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, shared with two other chemists. He was awarded for his work on human DNA.

Sancar is the second person from Turkey to receive a Nobel Prize after Orhan Pamuk’s literary award in 2006. He received his award at a ceremony in Stockholm, after an orchestra played a rendition of Mozart’s “Turkish March.”

Speaking to the media, Sancar said he had been able to win the prize was thanks to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic. He also said he was going to present the award at Anıtkabir, the Mausoleum of Atatürk in Ankara, on May 19, which is the anniversary of Atatürk initiating the war of independence in 1919 and is marked every year in Turkey as “Youth and Sports Day.”

Why did Aziz Sancar dedicate his Nobel Prize to Atatürk? - MURAT YETK?N
 

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