Ayşe Sezgin (born 23 January 1958) is a Turkish diplomat and former Ambassador of Turkey.

Private life

Ayşe Sezgin was born in

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, Turkey in 1958. She completed her high school education at Üsküdar American Academy in

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, and was then educated at the Faculty of Administrative and Social Science in

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University is a leading state university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by URAP in 2021. The university has two main campuses. The first campus is in the old t ...

, Ankara. She is married to diplomat and ambassador Aydın Adnan Sezgin. They have one child.

Career

Ayşe Sezgin entered in the service of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1983. She worked in many

diplomatic mission A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from a state or organization present in another state to represent the sending state or organization officially in the receiving or host state. In practice, the phrase usually den ...

s of Turkey, including Antwerp, Belgium,

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, Lyon, France,

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and London, United Kingdom. From 2006 to 2008, Sezgin was the Deputy General Manager of the

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Affairs Department in the Ministry. She was appointed Ambassador of Turkey to Slovenia succeeding Melek Sina Baydur and serving in

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between 15 March 2008 and 9 October 2009. Returned home, she became in 2010 Deputy Undersecretary responsible for European Union Affairs in the Ministry, the highest-ranked position held for the first time ever by a female civil servant in Turkey. In 2011, Sezgin was appointed ambassador to Austria succeeding Kadri Ecvet Tezcan. Her next appointment was to

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as Ambassador to Malta, where she served until 1 July 2015. On 14 June 2017, she became advisor at the Ministry.

References

Living people 1958 births People from Ankara Üsküdar American Academy alumni Hacettepe University alumni Turkish women ambassadors Ambassadors of Turkey to Slovenia Ambassadors of Turkey to Austria Ambassadors of Turkey to Malta 21st-century Turkish diplomats {{Turkey-diplomat-stub