Place and date of birth: İstanbul, 1967

Diplomatic Career:

May 2021 - February 2023

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Türkiye to the Kingdom of Spain.

Non-resident Ambassador to the Principality of Andorra.

Permanent Representative to UN World Tourism Organization (Nov. 2022-Feb. 2023).

January 2019 – May 2021

Ambassador, Director General for Foreign Policy, Analysis and Coordination, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

July 2018 – January 2019

Ambassador, Acting Director General for Conflict Prevention and Crisis Management, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

January 2017 – July 2018

Ambassador, Director General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

July 2011 – January 2017

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Türkiye to the Republic of India.

Non-resident Ambassador to Sri Lanka (2011-12), Maldives and Nepal.

September 2009 – July 2011

Deputy Director General for South Asia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

November 2008 – September 2009

Head of Department, Deputy Directorate General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs,

November 2004 – November 2008

First Counsellor, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Türkiye to the United States.

November 2002 – November 2004

Head of Department, Deputy Directorate General for Policy Planning, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

August 1998 – November 2002

International Staff Officer, Defense Planning and Operations Division of NATO.

September 1997 – August 1998

First Secretary, Deputy Directorate General for Arms Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

September 1996 – September 1997

Second Secretary, Deputy Directorate General for Arms Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

September 1993 – September 1996

Vice-Consul, Consulate General of the Republic of Türkiye in Hamburg.

August 1991 – September 1993

Third Secretary, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of the Republic of Türkiye to the State of Qatar.

December 1990 – August 1991

Diplomatic Attaché, Deputy Directorate General for Arms Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

April 1990 – December 1990

Military service, Turkish General Staff.

May 1989 – April 1990

Candidate to career officer Deputy Directorate General for Arms Control and Disarmament, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

December 1988 – May 1989

Candidate to career officer, Diplomacy Academy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Awards:

Best Ambassador of the Year Award 2022, Raia Diplomatica.

NATO Secretary General’s Award for Excellence.

Honorary Doctorate, Rai University, India.

The Royal Order of Spain (Encomienda de Numero)

Academic background:

Associate Prof. Dr.

International Relations

Dr. Iuris

International Law, Hamburg University

BA

Political Science, Boğaziçi University

Books:

People’s Mission to the Ottoman Empire, Oxford University Press.

(Translation: Halkın Fermanı, Koç University Press)

Turkey’s New European Era, Rowman and Littlefield.

The International Law of Conventional Arms Control in Europe, Nomos