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Zeki Levent Gümrükçü
Zeki Levent Gümrükçü (born in 1968), is a Turkish politician and diplomat who is currently the ambassador to NATO since 16 January 2023. Biography Gümrükçü was born in Ankara in 1968. He is a graduate of Ankara Atatürk Anatolian High School and Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of International Relations. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1990, and between 1991 and 1992 and 1992 and 1993, he served as the deputy chief of staff of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hikmet Çetin. He also did his military service in 1992. He was appointed as the undersecretary at the Permanent Representation of Turkey to the United Nations in 2006, and later promoted to the first undersecretary, and served as the Political Coordinator during Turkey's membership of the UN Security Council from 2009 to 2010. He served as Deputy Director General of Policy Planning at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 2011 to 2013, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basat Öztürk
Basat Öztürk (born 7 December 1963) is a Turkish diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to NATO from 2018 to 2023. Early life Basat Öztürk was born in Elazığ on 7 December 1963. He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1985. In 1996 he enrolled into the NATO Defense College. Career After graduating from university in 1985, he entered the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Turkey), Ministry of Foreign Affairs serving as the third secretary and Attaché, attache in the NATO department. From 1989 and 1994 he served in the Turkish embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Chicago. He then served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in several NATO related positions until 2000. Öztürk served as Consul General in Alexandria between 2002 and 2004. From 2004 he was involved with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assuming the position as its Deputy Director-General of Maritime and Aviation from 2007 to 2009. He became an ambassador to Kabul on 19 October 2009. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehmet Hakan Olcay
Mehmed (modern Turkish: Mehmet) is the most common Bosnian and Turkish form of the Arabic name Muhammad ( ar, محمد) (''Muhammed'' and ''Muhammet'' are also used, though considerably less) and gains its significance from being the name of Muhammad Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ..., the prophet of Islam. Originally the intermediary vowels in the Arabic ''Muhammad'' were completed with an ''e'' in adaptation to Turkish phonotactics, which spelled Mehemed and the name lost the central ''e'' over time Final obstruent devoicing, Final devoicing of ''d'' to ''t'' is a regular process in Turkish. The prophet himself is referred to in Turkish using the archaic version, ''Muhammed''. The name Mehmet also often appears in Mehmed#Derived names, derived compound names. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |