List of Turkish ambassadors in Japan
The ambassador heads the Turkish embassy in Tokyo and is also regularly accredited by the governments in Melekeok ( Palau ) and Palikir ( Federated States of Micronesia ).
In 1924 the Japanese and Turkish governments established diplomatic relations. The office and residence were created in 1977 based on a design by Kenzō Tange for 35 employees in Harajuku .
| Appointment accreditation |
ambassador | comment | Prime Minister of Turkey | Prime Minister of Japan | Leave post |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1925 | Hulusi Fuat Tugay | Chargé d'affaires | Ali Fethi Bey | Kiyoura Keigo | 1929 |
| 1929 | Cevat Ezine | Envoy, December 19, 1931 - May 21, 1932: Envoy in Warsaw | Hamaguchi Osachi | 1931 | |
| 1931 | Nebil Batı | Wakatsuki Reijirō | 1936 | ||
| 1936 | Hüsrev talk | Hirota Kōki | 1939 | ||
| 1939 | Ahmet Ferit Tek | Refik Saydam | Hiranuma Kiichirō | 1943 | |
| 1944 | Ali Muzaffer Göker | (* 1888 in Istanbul; † June 10, 1959), studied at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , from the 4th to the 7th legislative period he sat for Konya in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey Resignation: August 3, 1944, 1944–1945: Ambassador to Tokyo | Ahmet Fikri Tüzer | Koiso Kuniaki | 1945 |
| 1952 | İzzet Aksalur | Adnan Menderes | Yoshida Shigeru | 1955 | |
| 1955 | Semih Baran | Hatoyama Ichirō | 1957 | ||
| May 30, 1957 | Süreyya Anderiman | (Born September 28, 1902 in Taif ; † September 28, 1959 in Tokyo ), 1946–1957: Ambassador to Oslo , committed suicide with his wife immediately after visiting a Turkish parliamentary delegation in Tokyo. | Kishi Nobusuke | 28 Sep 1959 | |
| 1960 | Nejad Kemal Kavur | Cemal Gürsel | Ikeda Hayato | 1962 | |
| 1963 | Melih Esenbel | (* 1915 in Istanbul; † July 27, 1995 ibid), Abitur at Galatasaray High School , studied law at the University of Istanbul , 1967–1974: Ambassador to Washington , November 13, 1974 - March 30, 1975 in the government of Sadi Irmak : Foreign Minister . | İsmet İnönü | Ikeda Hayato | 1966 |
| 1967 | Turgut Aytuğ | Suat Hayri Ürgüplü | Satō Eisaku | 1970 | |
| 1970 | Şükrü Elekdağ | (Born September 29, 1924 in Istanbul), Abitur: Galatasaray High School , 1979–1989: Ambassador to Washington, DC | Suat Hayri Ürgüplü | Satō Eisaku | 1974 |
| 1974 | Celal Eyiceoğlu | (* 1914 Istanbul; † March 26, 1983), 1935–1941: Naval Academy, 1962: Rear Admiral, 1967: Admiral, August 16, 1968 - August 30, 1972: Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces, August 30, 1972 temporary retirement, | Bülent Ecevit | Miki Takeo | 1979 |
| 1979 | Nazif Çuhruk | Suleyman Demirel | Ōhira Masayoshi | 1983 | |
| 1983 | Nurver Nureş | Turgut Özal | Nakasone Yasuhiro | 1987 | |
| 1987 | Umut Arık | Takeshita Noboru | 1992 | ||
| 1992 | Necati Utkan | (* 1942 in Ankara), 1961: St. Joseph High School (Istanbul) , 1965 Political Science University of Ankara , entered the foreign service in 1965, 1990–1992 Ambassador to Baghdad, 1992–1996: Ambassador to Tokyo, 1996–1997 President of Turkish Presidium for International Cooperation and Coordination , 1997–1999: Deputy Undersecretary and Public Relations , 1999–2004: Ambassador in Rome, permanent representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007: retired . | Suleyman Demirel | Miyazawa Kiichi | 1996 |
| 1996 | Gündüz Suphi Aktan | (* August 7, 1941 in Safranbolu ; † November 19, 2008 in Ankara), 1998–2007: columnist for Radikal (daily newspaper) , deputy chairman of Milliyetçi Hareket Partisi , replaced Ümit Özdağ as chairman of the Center for Eurasian Strategic Studies , 1962 Studied political science at Ankara University , employed by the Ministry of the Interior, joined the Foreign Service in 1967, 1988–1991: Ambassador to Athens, 1991–1995: Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva , 1996–1998: Ambassador to Tokyo, 1998: Retirement. | Necmettin Erbakan | Ryūtaro Hashimoto | 1998 |
| 1998 | Yaman Baskut | (* February 7, 1939 in Istanbul; † August 8, 2010), Abitur: Galatasaray-Gymnasium studied political science at the Université de Neuchâtel , 1991–1996: Ambassador in Bucharest, 1998–2003, Ambassador in Tokyo, 2003: Transfer to the Retirement, consultancy contract for the preparatory work for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline . | Mesut Yılmaz | Keizo Obuchi | 2002 |
| Dec 14, 2002 | Solmaz Ünaydın | (* 1942; † August 26, 2010), married to Erdoğan Tevfik Ünaydın, high school graduate of the TED Ankara College Foundation Schools , Bachelor of International Relations from Bryn Mawr College , joined the foreign service in 1967 while serving at the UN headquarters . Second Class Legation Secretary in Cairo, 1982–1986: Chargé d'affaires in The Hague , 1992–1996: Ambassador to Stockholm , 1996–1998: Ambassador to Warsaw , December 14, 2002 - December 16, 2006: Ambassador to Tokyo, 2006 retired , Reactivated to promote Izmir as the venue for Expo 2015 . | Abdullah Gul | Jun'ichirō Koizumi | Dec 16, 2006 |
| 2007 | Selim Sermet Atacanlı | (* 1952 in Ankara), studied political science at Ankara University , joined the foreign service in 1975, 2000–2003: Ambassador to Pretoria in South Africa | Recep Tayyip Erdoğan | Yasuo Fukuda | Apr 3, 2011 |
| Apr 9, 2011 | Abdurrahman Bilgiç | (* 1963 in Adiyaman), 1981: Abitur Kadıköy Anadolu Lisesi , 1985: Studied political science at the University of Ankara, received his doctorate in political science in 1985, joined the foreign service in 1986, 2005–2007: Consul in Munich, January 2014: Ambassador to the Court of St. James's . | Yoshihiko Noda | Oct 22, 2011 | |
| Apr 27, 2012 | Serdar Kılıç | (* March 28, 1958 in Istanbul), 1980: Abitur TED Ankara College Foundation Schools , studied political science at Ankara University , joined the foreign service in 1984, 2008–2010: Ambassador in Beirut, April 27, 2012 to April 16 2014 Ambassador to Tokyo, April 2014: Ambassador to Washington, DC | |||
| Apr 14, 2014 | Ahmet Bülent Meriç | (* February 22, 1957 in Ankara), 1978: studied political science at the University of Ankara , entered the foreign service in 1980, held various positions in Singapore from 2007–2009, 2009–2011: Ambassador to Kiev | Ahmet Davutoğlu | Shinzo Abe |
