Ministry for EU Affairs

Place & Date of Birth: Amasya/Turkey, 22 January 1955

Education:

-High School "İstanbul Galatasaray Lisesi", 1975

-University of Ankara, Faculty of Political Sciences, International Relations Department, 1979

-Diploma of the GATT Trade Policy Course, 1990

-Certificate of attendance to the Defence and International Relations Course of the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS), 1999

Foreign Languages:

French and English

Decorations:

-Kingdom of Morocco "Ouissam Alaouite de l'Ordre de Grand Officier"

-Islamic Republic of Mauritania "Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite National"

Professional Career in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

- 1981-1983 Third Secretary at the Research and Policy Planning Department

- 1983-1986 Third and Second Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Brussels

- 1986-1988 Second and First Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Damascus

- 1988-1990 First Secretary at the Bilateral Economic Relations Department (MFA)

- 1990-1994 First Secretary and Counselor at the Permanent Mission of the Republic of Turkey to
the United Nations Office at Geneva

- 1994-1996 Chief of Section at the Directorate General of the European Union (MFA)

- 1996-1999 Counselor at the Permanent Delegation of the Republic of Turkey to the E.U/Brussels

- 1999-2000 Counselor at the Turkish Embassy in London (RCDS)

- 2000-2002 Head of Department at the Directorate General of the European Union (MFA)

- 2002-2003 Consul General at Nakhchivan/Azerbaijan

- 2003-2004 Head of Department at the Directorate General of the European Union (MFA)

- 2004-        Minister, Deputy Director General for the OSCE, Disarmament and Arms Control

- 2004-2007 Minister, Deputy Director General for the Balkans and Western Europe

- 2007-2010 Ambassador in Rabat/Morocco

- 2010-2011 Acting Secretary General at the Secretariat General for EU Affairs

- 2011-...     Undersecretary of the Ministry for EU Affairs