Friends, students, and colleagues around the globe are grieving the passing of the great Turkologist and Ottoman scholar György Hazai in Budapest on 7 January, 2016. György Hazai was both a full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA), as well as an honorary member of numerous scholarly institutions and organizations including the Turkish Language Association (TDK), the American Oriental Society, the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, and the Societas Uralo-Altaica. He received numerous academic and state honours and citations. In 2014 Abdullah Gül, the President of the Republic of Turkey, honoured him with the Order of Liyakat Nişanı.