Süleyman Demirel, 9th President of Turkey (1999) Gerhard Schröder, 7th Chancellor of Germany (2000) Heydar Aliyev, 3rd President of Azerbaijan (2001) Juan Antonio Samaranch, 7th President of the International Olympic Committee (2001) Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (2002) Islom Karimov, 1st President of Uzbekistan (2003) Rasul Gamzatov, Avar poet (2003) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, 1st President of Kalmykia (2003) Bartholomew I, Patriarch of Constantinople (2007) Toomas Hendrik Ilves, 4th President of Estonia (2007) Kürşad Tüzmen, Minister of State of Turkey (2009) Gabriela von Habsburg, Ambassador of Georgia to Germany and abstract sculptor (2009) Serzh Sargsyan, 3rd President of Armenia (2009) Allahshukur Pashazadeh, Grand Mufti of the Caucasus (2009) Matthew Bryza, United States diplomat (2009) Viktor Yushchenko, 3rd President of Ukraine (2009) Marie Anne Isler Béguin, French member of the European Parliament (2009) Javier Solana, Spanish politician and diplomat (2010) Strobe Talbott, American foreign policy analyst (2010) Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister of Turkey (2010) James F. Amos, 35th Commandant of the United States Marine Corps (2014) Ben Hodges, U.S. lieutenant general (2015) Juan Echánove, Spanish diplomat (2015) Philip Breedlove, American Air Force General (2016) John H. Costello, CNFA Europe Board of Directors Chairman and CNFA Board of Director (2016) Lech Kończak, Polish diplomat (2021)