Turkish Embassy in Berlin
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| State level | bilateral | ||
| Position of the authority | Embassy | ||
| Consist | since before 1871 | ||
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 Berlin
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| ambassador |
Ali Kemal Aydın (since December 2016) |
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| Employee | 100 | ||
| Website | berlin.emb.mfa.gov.tr | ||
The Turkish Embassy in Berlin (officially: Embassy of the Republic of Turkey Berlin ; Turkish Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Berlin Büyükelçiliği or TC Berlin Büyükelçiliği ) is the diplomatic representation of the Republic of Turkey in the Federal Republic of Germany. Ali Kemal Aydin has been accredited as Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey since 2016 . The embassy is the country's largest foreign representation in the world. It has no consular department; There is little public traffic as the local consulate general is responsible for consular matters.
location
The building on Tiergartenstrasse in the Berlin embassy district south of the Tiergarten in the district of the same name in the Mitte district is located at the old location of the representation, which the embassy owned from 1918 to 1945.
It stands between the South African and Italian embassies .
History of diplomatic relations
Beginnings in the 16th century
Since the early 16th century there was an embassy of the Roman-German emperors at the Hohe Pforte , other German states had diplomatic relations with the Ottoman Empire in the form of agencies or consulates that were gradually converted into accredited embassies, such as Saxony (ab 1712), Prussia (from 1756) or the free Hanseatic cities (from 1841).
In the 19th and early 20th centuries
Mutual relations were intensified, especially with the establishment of the German Empire from 1871.
The Ottoman diplomat had his place of residence and work in Old Berlin , Gertraudenstrasse 16 (among other things in 1890) .
The Ottoman Empire later acquired a building site at 19 Tiergartenstrasse and built its embassy building on it according to local architectural designs. This fell victim to acts of war in the last days of World War II and was later abandoned. The ruin remained standing and was gradually recaptured by nature.
When the Ottoman Empire fell and Turkey was founded in 1923, embassies of the German Empire continued to exist there.
After the Second World War until the 1990s
In and after the two world wars of the 20th century, diplomatic relations were interrupted (1918–1924 and 1944–1951).
With the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949, there was again an exchange of diplomats, and for a short time the Turkish ambassador was based in a hotel in Cologne . From 1951 onwards, the company moved to the then federal capital Bonn , where the agency, combined with several moves, remained until 1999.
From 1974 there was also an embassy of Turkey in East Berlin , the GDR capital. This was located in the Mitte district , Schadowstrasse 6, very close to the US embassy at the time, in a service building designed by the GDR architect Roland Korn for foreign representations. The building complex is now a listed building .
The government's move to Berlin prompted the Turkish government to look for a suitable location for its diplomats in the regained German capital. Some parts of the war ruins in Tiergartenstrasse were restored and served as a consulate in Berlin from around 1991.
In the 21st century
The embassy building was built in 1999 on behalf of a bank in Rungestaße in Berlin-Mitte . At that time, the office building was just being completed so that the interior design could be fitted in and, with some restrictions, the safety requirements were also met. Externally, however, the office building did not differ from a normal office building and did not reveal its function. In the long run, it did not meet the diplomats' demands, so it was decided to build a new building on the site of the previous consulate. With this, Turkey claimed the property of its former embassy at 19 Tiergartenstrasse and bought a neighboring property. The result was a plot of around 9,000 m² in the Tiergarten district , on which something new was to be created by integrating parts of the old embassy building.
Competition for a new embassy building and construction work
In January 2007 Turkey announced a competition, to which 143 entries were received, in order to create 6405 m² net usable area without traffic area at the new location. The still existing basement rooms of the old embassy were to be integrated.
The winning design for the competition envisaged a building with two four-story wing structures and a connecting atrium. According to the architects, the two wings should symbolize Turkey's position on two continents, as well as the mediator position between Orient and Occident . The left wing was to receive traditional Turkish, the right German and Berlin motifs. The installation of individual parts of the previous building from Bonn - such as the entrance door - was planned, as was the utilization of remains of the Ottoman building from the pre-war period. Due to the similarities with the Federal Chancellery , also a building with two protruding side wings and a connecting middle section, the Berlin press mocked the building as "Bündüskünzlürümt", which in turn caused displeasure in a Turkish newspaper.
After a few delays, the laying of the foundation stone took place in the summer of 2011, whereby it was not the winning design that was implemented, but the third-place design.
The new embassy building was officially opened with a celebration on October 30, 2012, the Turkish National Day , by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan together with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and 2000 guests.
architecture
The building consists of two parts, connected by a glass atrium and has a limestone facade . The copper portal is several stories high and is illuminated when it is dark. The foyer walls have a girih pattern.
There is a ballroom for 1400 people. The cost of the new building was around 30 million euros .
Organization of diplomatic work
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The Turkish Embassy in Berlin employs around 100 people and thus looks after the largest foreign representation in Turkey.
The Turkish Consulate General in Berlin had to move away from the city center because of the embassy move. If a move to Potsdam was originally planned, during which the around 105,000 Turkish citizens registered in Berlin would have had to go there to settle their consular affairs , the Consulate General is now on Heerstrasse in the Westend district .
There are currently several Turkish missions abroad in Germany (as of autumn 2019).
See also
Web links
- Website of the Turkish Embassy in Berlin
- Turkish consulates and embassy in Germany (Turkish)
- Photos from the embassy site of the architecture office
Individual evidence
- ^ Republic of Turkey, Foreign Ministry: Turkish Embassy Berlin
- ↑ Business & Diplomacy : Turkey | Ambassador in Berlin, accessed on October 19, 2017.
- ↑ Isabell Jürgens: The building as a message . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 3, 2008
- ↑ Foreign Gen. Consulates and Consulates in Berlin> Turkey . In: Allgemeiner Wohnungs-Anzeiger together with address and business manual for Berlin , 1870, II, p. 18.
- ↑ Berlin, book plan. 1988, VEB Tourist Verlag Berlin, p. 54.
- ↑ Schadowstrasse 4–9 / Dorotheenstrasse 85–91 at www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de.
- ↑ Brief description of the embassy building on Rungestrasse at BauNetz
- ↑ a b Turkey in the zoo. Competition for embassy building in Berlin decided . construction network
- ↑ Turkish Embassy in Berlin . ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. detail360
- ↑ a b Suzan Gülfirat: Bridge from Berlin to Ankara - How Turkish newspapers report on the planned new embassy building . In: Der Tagesspiegel , August 5, 2007.
- ^ Drawing of the Sieger architectural office sic from Cologne
- ↑ Marc Paustian: Turkish Embassy is building a small Bündüskünzlürümt . In: BZ , July 31, 2007.
- ↑ Ralf Schönball: Turkish Embassy opened in 2012 . In: Der Tagesspiegel , July 30, 2011.
- ↑ Description of the design and pictures of the building ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the architect Thomas Hillig.
- ^ Draft and pictures of the construction progress , website of the architect Volkmar Nickol.
- ↑ Turkey: Return to Historic Site . At: Deutsche Welle , October 30, 2012.
- ^ Udo Badelt: Diplomatic missions under construction New embassies for Berlin. In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 3, 2012
- ↑ Ulf Meyer: Long live the ornament again . faz.net, October 30, 2012, accessed October 30, 2012
- ↑ Jörg Niendorf: Patina ante portas . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , December 9, 2012, page V 11.
- ↑ statistik-berlin-brandenburg.de (PDF)
- ↑ dg: Consulate General of Turkey moves to Potsdam . In: Berliner Zeitung , December 8, 2000
- ↑ Representations in Turkey. Federal Foreign Office, accessed on January 10, 2015 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 33.5 ″ N , 13 ° 21 ′ 37.8 ″ E