{"id":175,"date":"2015-04-17T18:30:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-17T22:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/announcements\/cct-second-year-student-handan-uslu-wins-the-american-turkish-associations-young-achiever-award\/"},"modified":"2015-04-17T18:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-17T22:30:25","slug":"cct-second-year-student-handan-uslu-wins-the-american-turkish-associations-young-achiever-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/2025-02-19_cct\/news-story\/cct-second-year-student-handan-uslu-wins-the-american-turkish-associations-young-achiever-award\/","title":{"rendered":"CCT Second-Year Student, Handan Uslu, Wins the American-Turkish Association&#039;s Young Achiever Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/20150417_Handan-Uslu_1_218x218.jpg\" width=\"218\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/20150417_Handan-Uslu_2_272x218.jpg\" style=\" margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px;\" width=\"272\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.georgetown.edu\/cct\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/240\/2019\/09\/20150417_Handan-Uslu_3_272x218.jpg\" width=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Designed to celebrate the 50th year of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atadc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American-Turkish Association of Washington DC<\/a>, outstanding members of the community were awarded. 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