List of Italian ambassadors in Turkey

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Former embassy of the Kingdom of Italy to the Sultan, today the seat of the Italian Cultural Institute in Istanbul, 300 meters northwest of the Venedik Sarayı in Beyoğlu

List of Italian ambassadors in Constantinople and Ankara

From the 13th century onwards, Venetian baili to Constantinople were originated. The Bailos resided in the Venedik Sarayı , a palace in the Venetian colony of Beyoğlu , which first came to Austria-Hungary after the sinking of the Serenissima and only became the seat of the embassy of the Kingdom of Italy in 1919. On October 13, 1923, Ankara became the capital of Turkey and the embassy address was Ataturk Bulvari, 118, Kavaklıdere . The Venedik Sarayıbecame the second residence of the Italian ambassador in Turkey and the seat of the Italian consulate general in Istanbul. An Italian cultural institute is housed in the building in Tepebaşı, Beyoğlu, where the Italian embassy was located until the First World War .

Heads of mission

Italian ambassador to the Ottoman Empire

Appointment / accreditation Surname Remarks appointed by accredited during the government of Leave post
25 Sep 1856 Giacomo Durando Victor Emmanuel II Abdülmecid I. 1861
July 13, 1861 Marcello Cerruti Bettino Ricasoli Abdülaziz 1862
June 26, 1862 Camillo Caracciolo Di Bella Urbano Rattazzi 1863
27 Aug 1863 Giuseppe Greppi Marco Minghetti 1866
March 18, 1866 Emilio Visconti-Venosta 1867
May 2, 1867 Giuseppe Bertinatti Urbano Rattazzi 1869
May 24, 1869 Raffaele Ulisse Barbolani 1875
July 17, 1875 Luigi Córti Marco Minghetti 1880
Feb 11, 1886 Francesco Galvagna Agostino Depretis Murad V. 1886
Feb. 3, 1887 Alberto Blanc ambassador Francesco Crispi
Oct. 2, 1891 Costantino Ressmann Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
May 3, 1892 Luigi Avogadro di Collobiano Arborio Giovanni Giolitti
1894 Tommaso Catalani (* April 28, 1843 in Catania; † July 28, 1895 in Turkey) from 1888 to 1889 chargé d' affaires in London . Francesco Crispi July 28, 1895
Oct. 24, 1895 Alberto Panza appointed September 15, 1895
March 1, 1896 Alberto De Foresta Legation Council Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì
29 Feb 1896 Riccardo Bollati Legation Secretary
29 Feb 1896 Carlo Bollati Legation Secretary
1903 Obizzo Malaspina di Carbonara Giovanni Giolitti
Jan. 1904 Guglielmo Imperiali di Francavilla 1909
1910 Enrico Ciapelli Luigi Luzzatti Mehmed V.
July 21, 1911 Eugenio Camillo Garroni Antonio Salandra Aug 1915

Italian high commissioners in the Ottoman Empire

Appointment / accreditation Surname Remarks appointed by accredited during the government of Leave post
Nov. 1918 Carlo Sforza Italian High Commissioner in Constantinople Vittorio Emanuele Orlando Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Jan. 1919
Sep 1920 Eugenio Camillo Garroni Italian High Commissioner in Constantinople Francesco Saverio Nitti Oct 22, 1923

Italian ambassador to Turkey

Appointment / accreditation Surname Remarks appointed by accredited during the government of Leave post
Nov 3, 1925 Luca Orsini Baroni Official seat of Istanbul Benito Mussolini Huseyin Rauf Bey 1929
1929 Pompeo Aloisi Ankara office Ali Fethi Bey 1932
1932 Vincenzo Lojacono 1934
1936 Carlo Galli June 21, 1938
Aug 24, 1938 Ottavio de Peppo
Feb. 1943 Raffaele Guariglia (* 1889 in Naples) Pietro Badoglio Ahmet Fikri Tüzer
6 Sep 1943 Guido Rocco (November 26, 1886 - May 2, 1959) Pietro Badoglio
1950 Luca Pietromarchi Ferruccio Parri Adnan Menderes July 25, 1958
1960 Massimo Magistrati (* 1899 in Gallarate) Fernando Tambroni Cemal Gürsel
1961 Mario Luciolli Amintore Fanfani 1964
1973 Giorgio Smoquina (* March 14, 1915 in Trieste) Mariano Rumor Mehmet Naim Talu
1980 Eric Da Rin Francesco Cossiga Bulent Ulusu
Jan. 4, 1988 Giorgio Franchetti Pardo (* December 14, 1928 in Rome) Ciriaco De Mita Turgut Özal March 1, 1993
March 23, 1993 Luigi Maria Fontana Giusti Carlo Azeglio Ciampi Tansu Çiller
March 22, 1997 Massimiliano Bandini (* June 30, 1932 in Florence) Romano Prodi Mesut Yılmaz
July 5, 1999 Vittorio Claudio Surdo (* November 26, 1943 in Cupra Montana (Ancona)) Massimo D'Alema Bülent Ecevit Feb 2, 2004
Feb. 2004 Carlo Marsili Silvio Berlusconi Recep Tayyip Erdoğan June 11, 2010
July 24, 2010 Gianpaolo Scarante (* July 15, 1950 in Venice)
March 13, 2015 Luigi Mattiolo Matteo Renzi 19 Dec 2018
19 Dec 2018 Andrea Filippo Colombo Chargé d'affaires Giuseppe Conte

Envoy from Italian states before 1861

Venetian ambassadors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Italian Embassy Ankara
  2. ^ Italian Consulate General in Istanbul
  3. ↑ Italian Cultural Institute Istanbul
  4. ↑ Guido Rocco
  5. ↑ Giorgio Franchetti Pardo (PDF; 8 kB)
  6. ^ Luigi Maria Fontana Giusti
  7. ^ Massimiliano Bandini
  8. ↑ Vittorio Claudio Surdo (PDF)  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / itaturk.moreinteractive.eu  
  9. ↑ Gianpaolo Scarante
  10. ↑ Ambasciata d'Italia, Ankara, Andrea Filippo Colombo, ambankara.esteri.it
  11. ↑ Ambasciatori d'Italia ( Memento of the original from April 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.obarsiv.com