Ebru Barutçu Gökdenizler (born 1959), is a Turkish diplomat and ambassador.

Private life

Ebru Barutçu was born in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

, Turkey in 1959. She is the grand daughter of politician Faik Ahmet Barutçu (1894–1959). She is married to diplomat and ambassador Ahmet Vakur Gökdenizler. She completed her secondary education at

TED Ankara College TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. It consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. Its İncek Campus, considered sizeable with 141,000 square meters of enclosed and over 309,000 square ...

, and then graduated from the

American University of Paris The American University of Paris (AUP) is a private university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is one of the oldest American institutions of higher education in Europe, and the first to be established in France. The university ...

in France.

Career

Ebru Barutçu Gökdenizler joined the

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. She served in the diplomatic missions of Turkey at the

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and in

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. She held various positions in the Ministry, as the Special Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, in the departments for Multilateral Economic Relations, the

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, Policy Planning, the Middle East and the Americas. She was the Director General of the Department for the Americas - political and economic relations of North, Central and South American countries before she was appointed Ambassador of Turkey to Portugal. She served there between 4 September 2012 and 8 November 2016. In June 2017, she became Advisor to the Minister of the Foreign Affairs.

References

Living people 1959 births People from Ankara TED Ankara College Foundation Schools alumni American University of Paris alumni Turkish women ambassadors Ambassadors of Turkey to Portugal 21st-century Turkish diplomats {{Turkey-diplomat-stub