Turkish Embassy Vienna
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey | ||
| Consist | since January 28, 1924 | ||
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 Vienna
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| ambassador | Mehmet Hasan Göğüş | ||
| Website | www.vienna.emb.mfa.gov.tr/ | ||
The Turkish Embassy in Vienna ( officially : Embassy of the Republic of Turkey Vienna; T ürkiye C umhuriyeti Viyana Büyükelçiliği or T . C . Viyana Büyükelçiliği) is the highest diplomatic representation of the Republic of Turkey in Austria . Since February 2019, Ümit Yardim has been the ambassador of the Republic of Turkey in the embassy building
Embassy building
The embassy building is located at Prinz-Eugen- Strasse 40 in Vienna's 4th district . It is opposite the Belvedere Palace and the Schwarzenberg Palace (Schwarzenbergplatz) .
The current seat of the Turkish Embassy was built by the architectural studio Fellner & Helmer around 1879 as a private city palace in the style of the Italian late renaissance for Alexander Scharf . The builder was Ferdinand Hauser. In 1916 the Ottoman Empire bought the building; since then it has served as the Turkish embassy .
organization
The Turkish embassy is subordinate to three Turkish consulates general in Salzburg, Bregenz (responsible for the state of Vorarlberg) and Vienna, which handle consular tasks. There are also representations of the Republic of Turkey at the UN in Vienna and at the OSCE in Austria . The Turkish embassy is responsible for 112,150 Turkish citizens living in Austria. The religious attaché of the Turkish embassy is also the chairman of Avusturya Türk-İslam Birliği (ATIB), the largest Islamic umbrella organization in Austria with 63 mosque associations , which is affiliated with the Turkish Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı .
history
The bilateral relations between Austria and Turkey go back to the diplomatic embassies of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire . The Ottoman Empire was represented in Austria by temporary ambassadors until the end of the 18th century. Between 1726 and 1732, Ömer Aga acted as consul general in Vienna for Sultan Ahmed III. Conversely, as early as 1554, Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq was sent to the Sultan's court by Emperor Ferdinand I ; Austria had a permanent diplomatic mission in Constantinople from the second half of the 18th century. The first permanent Ottoman ambassador İbrahim Afif Efendi came to Vienna in 1798. Between October 15, 1912 until the end of the First World War , Hüseyin Hilmi Pascha was ambassador and thus the last diplomat of the Ottoman Empire in Austria. After the fall of the empire, Hüseyin Hilmi stayed in Vienna until his death in 1922.
The date of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Austria can be seen on January 28, 1924, on which a friendship treaty was concluded with the newly founded Republic of Turkey.
On June 20, 1984, there was an attack on an attaché by Armenian extremists in Theresianumgasse, which is adjacent to the embassy . When he parked his car in the embassy parking lot at 8:43 a.m., a bomb attached to the car exploded. Due to the force of the explosion, parts of the wreck flew 30 meters, and within a radius of several hundred meters, the window panes up to the fifth floor broke. The policeman posted in front of the embassy suffered severe burns and five other passers-by, some seriously injured.
Diplomatic relations were lastingly clouded in 2004/2005 by the Austrian stance towards Turkey's accession negotiations with the European Union , when Austria temporarily blocked an agreement on candidacy and was the only EU member state to demand that Turkey be offered an alternative in addition to full membership. Under the Turkish ambassador Selim Yenel, appointed in 2006, Turkey decided to initiate a Turkish dialogue due to the many reservations, in order to enter into a direct exchange of views with the Austrian population. In 2009 Selim Yenel was brought back to Ankara to head the European section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2009 to 2011 Kadri Ecvet Tezcan was Ambassador to the Republic of Turkey. In November 2010, Tezcan said in a controversial interview that “the Interior Minister should stop intervening in the integration process”, the Turks “did not want to be treated like a virus” if he were “the Secretary General of the UN, the OSCE or OPEC, would he not stay here "and he was" an ambassador for 250,000 " Turks in Austria (including 110,000 naturalized Austrians). The interview was seen as a diplomatic scandal and resulted in demands that he be declared persona non grata . Tezcan was recalled early in November 2011 and replaced by Ayşe Sezgin as the new ambassador in Vienna. Mehmet Hasan Göğüş has been the Turkish ambassador in Vienna since December 2013.
See also
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- ↑ The 2009 immigration balance decreased significantly to 20,600 people Statistics Austria, May 19, 2010
- ↑ Turks increase their presence in the Islamic Representation Wiener Zeitung, Saturday, March 26, 2011 (accessed on November 22, 2013)
- ↑ Rudolf Agstner: "The Turkish Consulates in Austria (-Ungarn) 1718-1918" , page 109 ff. In: "Austria in Istanbul" By Rudolf Agstner, Elmar Samsinger 2010
- ↑ a b History of bilateral relations between the Republic of Austria and the Turkish Republic Embassy Ankara of the Republic of Austria
- ^ History Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Vienna, February 24, 2009
- ^ Agreement between Austria and the Turkish Republic on the conclusion of a friendship treaty . StF: Federal Law Gazette No. 391/1924 (NR: GP II 105 AB 131 p. 45.)
- ↑ oesterreicherrorismus.blogspot.co.at - "Terrible bang, huge flame"
- ↑ EU accession as a rupture between Turkey and Austria by Helmar Dumbs, Die Presse November 11, 2010
- ↑ Turkey dialogue with Austria Renato Lanza, istanbul post 2006
- ↑ Fighters against parallel worlds by Christian Ultsch , Die Presse October 17, 2009
- ↑ Tezcan: "Why did you naturalize 110,000 Turks?" by Christian Ultsch, Die Presse November 9, 2010
- ↑ Despite the scandal, the ambassador does not become a "persona non grata" krone.at 11 November 2010
Web links
- Internet presence of the Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Vienna (Turkish, German)
- Embassy survey platform: Turkey Dialogue Turkey - Austria (German)
- Website of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English)
Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 35 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 42" E