List of Turkish ambassadors in the United Kingdom

This list of Turkish envoys in the United Kingdom includes envoys and ambassadors since 1793.

The Turkish Embassy in London is located at 43 Belgrave Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .

history

Already Murad III. exchanged letters with Elisabeth I in 1579. The first ministerial resident at the Sublime Gate of Istanbul was William Harborne in 1583 . The trade treaties with the Ottoman Empire were laid down in capitulations by the Sultan .

Events

In July 1867, Sultan Abdülaziz was on a state visit to London.

On August 1, 1950, the Turkish government applied for membership in NATO in London . According to the Turkish Embassy in London, the plane of Adnan Menderes , who was executed by the military, crashed near London on February 17, 1959. Cevdet Sunay was on a state visit to London from November 1st to 8th, 1967. Kenan Evren was on a state visit in London from November 12th to 15th, 1987. On July 12, 1991, the Kurdistan Workers' Party protested in front of the embassy.

Residences

The Turkish Ambassador to the Court of St James’s resided

• From 1793 at 69 Portland Place
• From 1901 in Bryanston Square
• From 1954 at 43 Belgrave Square in Belgravia London .

Appointment / accreditation	Surname	Remarks	Leave post
1793	Yusuf Agah Efendi 1793	(* 1744 in Tripoli , † 1824 in Istanbul ). at Georg III. accredited.
1796	İsmail Ferruh Efendi
1806	Sıdkı Efendi	Chargé d'affaires	1810
1811	Ramadani Efendi	Chargé d'affaires	1821
1832	Mavroyani	Chargé d'affaires
1834	Mehmed Namık Pasha	Envoy ; presented his letter of accreditation as Turkish minister on October 8, 1834
1834	Nuri Efendi		1835
1836	Mustafa Resid Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi ); later grand vizier	1837
1837	Şevket Bey	Chargé d'affaires	1838
1837	İbrahim Sarim Efendi	Special embassy for Queen Victoria's accession to the throne. Later Grand Vizier.
1838	Ahmed Fethi Pasha	Special embassy for Queen Victoria's coronation ceremony
1838	İbrahim Sarim Efendi	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )
1838	Mustafa Resid Pasha	second term; Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )	1840
1840	Nuri Efendi	Special embassy
1840	Şekip Efendi	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )
1842	Ali Efendi	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi ). Later Grand Vizier Mehmed Emin Ali Pascha .	1844
1844	İbrahim Sarim Efendi	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )
1845	Şekip Efendi	Second term. Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )
1846	Kalimaki Bey	Chargé d'affaires	1848
1848	Kâmil Pasha	Chargé d'affaires
1848	Kıbrıslı Mehmed Emin Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi ). Later Grand Vizier.
1851	Kostaki Musurus Paşa	(* 1807; † 1891) Ambassador ( Orta Elçi ; from 1856 Büyük Elçi )
1887	Rustem Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi ). Namesake of Rustem Pasha .	1896
1896	Costaki Anthopoulos Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )	1902
1897	Münir Pasha	Special embassy for the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne
1901	Karatodori Pasha; Turhan Pasha ; Nasir Pasha	Special embassy for Queen Victoria's funeral and King Edward's accession to the throne
1903	Stephen Musurus Pasha	(* 1841; † 1907) Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )
1908	Halil Rıfat Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )	1909
1909	Muhtar Pasha	Special embassy for Sultan Mehmed V's accession to the throne
1909	Ahmed Tevfik Pasha	Ambassador ( Büyük Elçi )	1914
	Diplomatic relations were interrupted from 1914 to 1924.
1923	Yusuf Kemal Tengirşenk	Was appointed envoy but declined and instead remained a member of parliament	1923
1924	Zekai Apaydin	also Zekiai Bey	1924
1925	Ahmet Ferit Tek		1932
1934	Münir Ertegün	also Mehmet Munir Bey	1934
1934	Fethi Okyar		1939
1939	Tevfik Rüştü Macaws		1942
1942	Up Orbay	also Huseyin Rauf Orbay	1944
1944	Rusen Esref Ünaydin		1944
1945	Cevat acikalin		1952
1952	Huseyin Ragip Baydur		1954
1955	Suat Hayri Ürgüplü		1957
1957	Muharrem Nuri Birgi		1960
1960	Feridun Cemal Erkin		1962
1962	Kemal Nejat Kavur		1963
1964	Zeki Kuneralp		1964
1966	Ümit Hluk Bayülken		1969
1969	Zeki Kuneralp		1972
1972	Turgut Menemencioglu		1978
1978	Vahap Asiroglu		1981
1981	Rahmi Gümrükçüoglu		1989
1989	Nurver Nures		1990
1991	Candemir Önhon		1994
1995	Özdem Sanberk		1999
2000	Korkmaz Haktanir		2002
2003	Akin Alptuna		2006
2007	Mehmet Yigit Alpogan	August 2003–2004 Ambassador to Athens	2010
2010	Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz		2014
2014	Abdurrahman Bilgiç

Individual notes

1. ↑ 17 Şubat 1959: Londra Konferansı için İngiltere'ye seyahat eden Başbakan Adnan Menderes'in uçağının Londra yakınlarında düşmesi
2. ↑ http://london.emb.mfa.gov.tr/MissionChiefHistory.aspx
3. ^ Johann Wilhelm Zinkeisen, History of the Ottoman Empire in Europe : The time of reforms and the rivalry of the great powers for their influence in the Divan from peace with France in 1802 to peace with Russia at Buckarest in 1812.
4. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
5. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
6. ↑ Namik Pasha: Leila Tarazi Fawaz, An occasion for war: civil conflict in Lebanon and Damascus in 1860
7. ↑ Nuri Efendi: Gottlob Benedict von Schirach, Political journal: together with advertisement of learned and other things, Part 2
8. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
9. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
10. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
11. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
12. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
13. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
14. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
15. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
16. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
17. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
18. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
19. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
20. ↑ Faik Reşit Unat: Osmanlı Sefirleri ve Sefaretnameleri (revised by Bekir Sıtkı Baykal), 3rd edition, Ankara 1992, p. 237.
21. ↑ Abdurrahman Bilgiç
22. ^ Geoff Berridge, British Diplomacy in Turkey, 1583 to the Present: A Study in the Evolution