Basat Öztürk

Basat Öztürk (born 7 December 1963) is a Turkish diplomat. He has served as Ambassador to NATO from 2018 to 2023.[1][2]

Basat Öztürk
Öztürk in June 2017
Turkish Ambassador to NATO
In office
15 November 2018 – 16 January 2023
Succeeded byZeki Levent Gümrükçü
Personal details
Born
Basat Öztürk

(1963-12-07) 7 December 1963
Elazığ, Turkey

Early life

Basat Öztürk was born in Elazığ on 7 December 1963.[1] He graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences in 1985. In 1996 he enrolled into the NATO Defense College.[3]

Career

After graduating from university in 1985, he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs serving as the third secretary and attache in the NATO department.[3] From 1989 and 1994 he served in the Turkish embassy in Tehran and the consulate in Chicago.[3] He then served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in several NATO related positions until 2000.[3]

Öztürk served as Consul General in Alexandria between 2002 and 2004.[3] From 2004 he was involved with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs assuming the position as its Deputy Director-General of Maritime and Aviation from 2007 to 2009.[3] He became an ambassador to Kabul on 19 October 2009.

On 17 November 2013, Öztürk replaced NATO Deputy Secretary General Hüseyin Diriöz, whose term of office expired in 2013. He was nominated but a German candidate was selected.[4]

He served as General Manager of Multilateral Political Affairs from 1 December 2013 and 15 March 2015 and has been General Manager of International Security Affairs from 15 March 2015 and 16 October 2016.

On 17 October 2016, he served as the first civilian deputy undersecretary of the Ministry of National Defense until 9 July 2018. Öztürk became the Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO on 15 November 2018.[1][2]

He was replaced by his successor, Zeki Levent Gümrükçü, on 16 January 2023.[5]

Personal life

Öztürk speaks English. He is married and has two daughters.

References
  1. "NATO'ya yeni büyükelçi atandı". 5 October 2018. Archived from the original on 5 October 2018.
  2. "NATO internet sitesindeki özgeçmişi". 3 March 2021. Archived from the original on 19 August 2020.
  3. NATO. "Basat Öztürk, Permanent Representative of Turkey to NATO". NATO. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  4. Güldener Sonumut (1 July 2013). "NATO'da Türk yardımcı yerine Alman atandı". Archived from the original on 30 November 2016. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
  5. NATO. "Ambassador Zeki Levent Gümrükçü, Permanent Representative of Türkiye to NATO". NATO. Retrieved 2023-05-13.
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