Kamuran Gürün (1924 – 20 July 2004) was a Turkish diplomat. Kamuran Gürün was born in Istanbul in 1924. He studied at

Galatasaray High School Galatasaray High School ( tr, Galatasaray Lisesi, french: Lycée de Galatasaray), established in what was then Constantinople and is now Istanbul, in 1481, is the oldest high school in Turkey. It is also the second-oldest Turkish educational in ...

's School of Political Science and at Ankara University's Faculty of Political Sciences. In 1948, he entered the Foreign Ministry. After serving in various internal and external posts of the Ministry, he was appointed Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Affairs, serving between 1963-1967. In addition, he was appointed to the newly established Inter-Ministerial Economic Committee of the General Secretariat. In 1967 he was appointed as ambassador to Bucharest. In the same year he married Gencay Gurun. In 1970 he became a member of the OECD Permanent Delegation. In 1972, he was appointed to the Turkish Embassy in Athens. In 1976 he returned to the headquarters of the High Counsel. In 1978 he was appointed as Secretary General of

CENTO The Middle East Treaty Organization (METO), also known as the Baghdad Pact and subsequently known as the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), was a military alliance of the Cold War. It was formed in 24 February 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Tur ...

, and then as the Secretary General of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1980 (Counsellor). He retired in 1982, voluntarily. He got frequently involved in radio and television between the years 1984-86. He held appointments on the Faculty of Political Sciences in Ankara (1983–85), followed by

Marmara University Marmara University ( Turkish: ''Marmara Üniversitesi'') is a public university in Istanbul, Turkey. The university is named after the Sea of Marmara and was founded as a university in 1982. However, it was created in 1883 under the name of ''H ...

Institute in the European Community (1986), giving lectures on Revolutionary History and Turkish Foreign Policy. Between 1986-1994 he wrote a column in the newspaper ''

Hürriyet ''Hürriyet'' (, ''Liberty'') is one of the major Turkish newspapers, founded in 1948. , it had the highest circulation of any newspaper in Turkey at around 319,000. ''Hürriyet'' has a mainstream, liberal and conservative outlook. ''Hürriyet ...

'' on foreign policy. He is also the author of ''The Armenian File: The Myth of Innocence Exposed'', in which he denies the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through t ...

.''The Armenian File''
@ Amazon.com He died on 20 July 2004, aged 80 and was buried in

Zincirlikuyu Cemetery __NOTOC__ The Zincirlikuyu Cemetery ( tr, Zincirlikuyu Mezarlığı) is a modern burial ground residing on the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. It is administered by the Metropolitan Municipality. Many prominent figures from the world of polit ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Gurun, Kamuran 1924 births 2004 deaths Central Treaty Organisation officials Turkish diplomats Deniers of the Armenian genocide Burials at Zincirlikuyu Cemetery Turkish expatriates in Romania Turkish expatriates in Greece