Deputy Minister Ahmet Yıldız

Place and Date of Birth: Çardak Denizli,1964

Education: International Relations, Ankara University

He speaks English and Arabic. He is married and has 3 children.

Career:

July 2020 - June 2023

Head of the Turkish Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

July 2018 - June 2023

Member of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye and NATO Parliamentary Assembly

July 2018 - July 2020

Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye

June 2018 – May 2023

27th Term Justice and Development Party Denizli Deputy

July 2016 - April 2018

Ambassador, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

September 2014 - June 2016

Senior Diplomatic Adviser to the President

July 2014 - September 2014

Senior Diplomatic Adviser to the Prime Minister

November 2011 - July 2014

Ambassador, Turkish Embassy in Sarajevo

December 2009-November 2011

Consul General, Turkish Consulate General in Mosul

September 2009- December 2009

Minister Plenipotentiary, Head of Department, Department of Science, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

September 2008-September 2009

Head of Department, Office of the Special Representative for Iraq, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

September 2006-September 2008

Consul General, Turkish Consulate General in Jeddah

February 2005-September 2006

Counsellor, Turkish Embassy in Damascus

August 2004-February 2005

Counsellor, Turkish Embassy in Riyadh

September 2002-August 2004

Chief of Section, Department of Intelligence, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

July 2000-September 2002

Counsellor, Turkish Embassy in Damascus

October 1997-July 2000

Consul, Turkish Consulate General in Houston

October 1995-October 1997

Second Secretary / First Secretary Department of Protocol - Diplomatic Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

December 1993-October 1995

Vice Consul, Turkish Consulate General in Stuttgart

October 1991-December 1993

Attaché, Third Secretary, Turkish Embassy in Tripoli

December 1990-October 1991

Career Officer Candidate, Attaché, Department of Consular Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

April 1990-December 1990

Military Service

May 1989- April 1990

Career Officer Candidate, Department of the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

December 1988- May 1989

Career Officer Candidate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Department of Personnel