The Norwegian Nobel Committee received 287 nominations for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize, comprising 208 individuals and 79 organizations, as announced by secretary Kristian Berg Harpviken on April 30, 2026. The deadline for submissions was January 31, 2026, and nominees' names are kept confidential for 50 years under Nobel Foundation statutes.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is not an officially confirmed nominee due to the secrecy rule, but his name has surfaced in prior cycles for brokering the Russia-Ukraine Black Sea Grain Initiative in July 2022. Former US Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim wrote that year that Erdoğan "deserves at least to be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize" for that accord, though Zakheim acknowledged that Erdoğan's "authoritarian domestic policies render it unlikely that the liberal Norwegian Nobel Committee would give him much consideration."
The 287 nominations for 2026 are fewer than the record 376 candidates registered in 2016, but the Nobel Institute described the number as "consistently high" in its April 30 statement. Harpviken noted that the candidate pool remains large, though no specific list of nominees is made public. Erdoğan's absence from any credible, independent report of a 2026 nomination, and the lack of a major new peace initiative in 2025-2026, keep his prospects highly uncertain.
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on October 9, 2026, with the award ceremony scheduled for December 10, 2026. The committee's decision remains unknown until that date.
