2020-2021 Higher Education Academic Year Opening Ceremony was awarded the “PhD Thesis of the Year Award” in the Social and Human Sciences category for the doctoral thesis titled “Russian Presence in Syria and Palestine and Ottoman Politics” written by Melikşah Arslan with the consultancy of our Faculty Member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Saime Selenga Gökgöz. It was awarded by our President, Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.