Hatice Aslıgül Üğdül (born İstinyeli on June 6, 1957) is a Turkish female diplomat.

Early years

Hatice Aslıgül İstinyeli was born in Ankara on June 6, 1957. After completing

TED Ankara College TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in Ankara, Turkey. History At ...

in 1974, she studied Public Administration at the

Middle East Technical University Middle East Technical University (commonly referred to as METU; in Turkish language, Turkish, ''Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi'', ODTÜ) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university located in Ankara, Turkey. The ...

and graduated with honors in 1980. She later obtained a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. In 1984, she married Tunç Üğdül, also a diplomat. The couple has two children, daughter Meriç and son Cem.

Diplomatic career

Üğdül entered the service of the

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in 1982. She began working in the Cultural Relations Department, and served at various posts in the Ministry and at missions in many foreign countries such as Paris, France, and Thessaloniki, Greece. She was at the European Agency of High Technology for three years before she served as the Consul in

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, Belgium. Her next foreign post was at the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal, Canada. She served also in the department for the European Union of the Prime Ministry. In 2005, she was appointed Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Minister-Counsellor at the United Nations Office at Geneva. Üğdül served as the first ever female Ambassador of Turkey in Africa to Senegal between 2010 and 2012. During this time, she represented her country in addition to Senegal also in

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, Guinea-Bissau,

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, Burkina Faso and The Gambia of West Africa. Returned home, she was appointed Counselor in the Ministry in 2012, and diplomacy advisor to the Minister of Family and Social Policy

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. In January 2014, she became Director General of the Department of Europe at the Ministry. Effective as of November 15, 2016, she was appointed Ambassador to Slovakia.

References

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