Feridun Sinirlioğlu

Feridun Sinirlioğlu

Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu (born January 30, 1956 in Görele ) is a Turkish diplomat and official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey. In 2015 he was Foreign Minister of his country in the interim government of Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu . Since 2016 he has been Turkey’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations .

Life

Sinirlioğlu was born in Görele in the Giresun province on the Black Sea in 1956. He studied political science at the Institute for International Relations at Ankara University . He received his master's degree in political and administrative science from the Institute for International Relations at Boğaziçi University , where he also received his doctorate.

After graduating, Sinirlioğlu began his professional career as a civil servant in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1982/83 he did his military service. In 1985 Sinirlioğlu became the second secretary in the Turkish Embassy in The Hague , and later became the senior secretary. In 1988 he became senior secretary of the Turkish embassy in Beirut and in 1990 in Greece. In 1990, Sinirlioğlu became chief secretary of the deputy undersecretary of state in the department of bilateral affairs. The following year he became special advisor to the Undersecretary and in 1992 to Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel .

In 1992 he became Undersecretary of State in his country's permanent delegation to the United Nations. Between September 2, 1996 and September 15, 2000 he was chief advisor to the Turkish President Demirel. Subsequently, until July 1, 2002, he was Head of the Department for the Near and Middle East and North Africa. Between July 1, 2002 and January 15, 2007 he was Ambassador to Tel Aviv . In 2007 Sinirlioğlu was appointed deputy undersecretary of the department for bilateral affairs. Since August 21, 2009 he has been undersecretary of the Turkish Foreign Ministry.

Sinirlioğlu became Permanent Representative to the United Nations in October 2016 and continues in this role to this day.

Sinirlioğlu visits US Secretary of State John Kerry (September 2015)

After the parliamentary elections in Turkey in June 2015 , the election winner Ahmet Davutoğlu ( AKP ) failed to form a government, so that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called new elections. According to the Turkish constitution, a government must be formed during the transition period to which all parties in parliament belong. If a party does not want to appoint a minister, independents must take their seat in the interim government.

Erdoğan called new elections for November 2015 in August and tasked Davutoğlu with forming a transitional government . Since the largest opposition party Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (CHP) and the Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi (MHP) refused to send ministers to the cabinet, the eight ministers had to be filled with independents. Therefore Sinirlioğlu became Foreign Minister until a new government was formed.

Feridun Sinirlioğlu is married to the diplomat Ayşe Sinirlioğlu. The couple have two children.

Web links

Commons : Feridun Sinirlioğlu  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Sinirlioğlu on the website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English / Turkish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of permanent Representatives and observers to the United Nations in New York , United Nations, accessed April 21, 2018
2. ^ ^{A b} Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu Dışişleri Bakanı , Yeni Şafak , August 28, 2015