Mehmet Güney

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Mehmet Güney (born  May 3, 1936 in Siirt ) is a Turkish lawyer and diplomat . Among other things, he acted as his home country's ambassador to Cuba , Singapore and Indonesia , and was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission from 1992 to 1997 . From 1999 to 2015 he was a judge at the International Criminal Court for Rwanda , where he was a member of the Appeals Chamber from 2001 to 2015, which exists as a joint body of the Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia .

Life

Mehmet Güney was born in the eastern Anatolian city ​​of Siirt in 1936 and studied law and political science at the University of Ankara . He then worked as an administrative lawyer from 1959 to 1964, before joining the Turkish Foreign Ministry . In the course of his diplomatic career he worked as a legal advisor from 1964 to 1970, from 1975 to 1977 and from 1982 to 1985 and from 1985 to 1989 as senior legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1970 to 1975 and from 1980 to 1982 he was legal advisor to the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations in New York and from 1977 to 1979 legal advisor to the Turkish Embassy in The Hague .

He served as the Turkish ambassador to Cuba from 1989 to 1993 , from 1993 to 1995 in Singapore and from 1998/1999 to Indonesia . In addition, he represented his home country as a delegate or head of delegation at various international institutions and conferences as well as in bilateral negotiations, for example at the second meeting of the conference at which the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties was negotiated, several times at meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations , 1971 at the meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights and in negotiations with Greece on the delimitation of the continental shelf and the airspace in the Aegean Sea .

From 1984 he was a judge at the European Nuclear Energy Court for one term . From 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the United Nations International Law Commission. From 1999 to 2015 he was a judge at the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTY) and from 2001 to 2015 he was assigned to the Appeals Chamber of the Court of Justice, which also serves as the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia .

Mehmet Güney is married and has three children.

literature

  • Curricula vitae of candidates nominated by national groups. Mehmet Guney. In: Elections to fill Vacancies in Principal Organs: Election of a Member of the International Court of Justice. United Nations Document A / 49/911-S / 1995/450. Submitted by the UN Secretary General to the UN General Assembly and the UN Security Council, June 1, 1995, pp. 12–15

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personal data
SURNAME Güney, Mehmet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Siirt