Selim Rauf Sarper

Selim Rauf Sarper (born June 14, 1899 in Istanbul ; † October 11, 1968 there ) was a Turkish diplomat and politician .

biography

After attending a German-language grammar school , he studied law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the University of Ankara . After completing his studies, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1927 and was initially legation secretary and later press attaché at the embassy in Bucharest .

After working as Ambassador to Moscow from 1944 to 1946, he was Ambassador to Rome from 1946 to 1947 after the Second World War . He was then Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations (UN) in New York until 1957 and from 1957 to 1959 Permanent Representative to NATO . After returning to Turkey in 1959, he became Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sarper was a member of the Republican People's Party ( Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi , CHP).

After the coup d'état of May 27, 1960, he became a member of the Provisional National Assembly and foreign minister in the government of Prime Minister Cemal Gürsel as successor to Fatin Rüştü Zorlu . He held this office until February 16, 1962 in the subsequent governments of Emin Fahrettin Özdilek and İsmet İnönü .

In October 1961 he was elected as a candidate for the CHP as a member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey and, after his re-election in 1965, represented the interests of Istanbul until his death.

According to the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey , Sarper was a Freemason .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Masons of Turkey: Famous Turkish Freemasons ( Memento of December 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) (English)