Şakir Özcan Torunlar was appointed as Turkey’s ambassador to Israel. According to the information obtained from diplomatic sources, the new assignments of some ambassadors have been announced.
Accordingly, it was decided to appoint Ambassador Şakir Özkan Torunlar, who served as the Consulate General of Jerusalem in 2010-2014 and the Embassy in New Delhi between January 2017 and May 2021, to the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv.
Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Sedat Önal, Permanent Representative to the European Union (EU), Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı, and NATO Permanent Representative to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of America, Ambassador Zeki Levent Gümrükçü.
Ambassador Koray Ertaş, Special Counsel to Minister Çavuşoğlu to the London Embassy; Ambassador Çağatay Erciyes, Director General of Bilateral Political Affairs and Maritime-Aviation-Border to the Embassy of Athens; Selçuk Ünal, Syria Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Embassy of The Hague; Ambassador Nur Sağman, Director General of West and Central Africa at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was brought to the Dakar Embassy.
It was decided to appoint Ambassador Murat Karagöz, Director General of Information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Embassy of Turkey in Lisbon, Erdem Ozan, Deputy Director General of Syria of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Embassy of Amman, and Ufuk Ulutaş, Head of the Center for Strategic Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Embassy of the Vatican.
To the Embassy of Podgorica, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General of Bilateral Political Affairs Maritime-Aviation-Border Barış Kalkavan, to the Embassy of Canberra Ufuk Gezer, Deputy Director General of South Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the Embassy of Djibouti from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Economic Cooperation and Emerging 8 Cenk Uraz, Deputy Director General of the Country Organization, was appointed.
Other names and places of duty conveyed by Çavuşoğlu are as follows:
Embassy of Luanda: Ufuk Ekici
Gaboron Embassy: Ahmet Idem Akay,
Jakarta Embassy: Talip Küçükcan
Nicosia Embassy: Metin Feyzioğlu
Brazavil Embassy: Mehmet Raif Karaca
Pristina Embassy: Sabri Tunç Angıl
Abidjan Embassy: Deniz Erdogan Barım
Kigali Embassy: Aslan Alper Yuksel
Mogadishu Embassy: İbrahim Mete Yagli
Dushanbe Embassy: Umut Acar
Kampala Embassy: Fatih Ak
Permanent Representative to the Council of Europe: Nurdan Bayraktar Golder
Accra Embassy: Hüseyin Güngör
Buenos Aires Embassy: Lifetime Budak
Ottawa Embassy: Esra Demir
Vilnius Embassy: Görkem Barış Tantekin
Lima Embassy: Serra Kaleli
Oslo Embassy: Gülin Dinç
Addis Ababa Embassy: Berk Baran,
Valletta Embassy: Erdeniz Sen
Luxembourg Embassy: Engin Yuru
Nur Sultan Embassy: Mustafa Kapucu,
Embassy of Brazil: Halil İbrahim Akça
Muscat Embassy: Muhammet Hekimoğlu
Tehran Embassy: Hijabi Swallow
Bucharest Embassy: Özgür Kıvanç Altan,
Kotonu Embassy: Mesut Koç
