Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz

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Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz speaks on “Contemporary International Dialogue: Art-based Developments and Culture Shared between Nations” the London Art as Cultural Diplomacy Conference 2013

Ünal Çeviköz was born in İstanbul in 1952.

Political Career[edit]

Üunal Çeviköz joined the foreign service in 1978. He has since served in the Turkish Embassies in Moscow and Sofia and in the Turkish Consulate in Bregenz. He joined the International Secretariat of NATO in Brussels in 1989. During this time he has also served in several different political departments in the Ministry. He specialized mainly in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, Central Asia and the Caucasus. He was promoted to the rank of Ambassador in 2001 and served as Ambassador of Turkey to Azerbaijan between 2001-2004 and as Ambassador of Turkey to the Republic of Iraq from 2004-2006. Since July 2010, he serves as the Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Education[edit]

He graduated from the Bosphorus University, Department of English Literature in 1974 and Political Science in 1978. Following his batchelors he went on to obtain a masters degree in International Relations from Free University of Bruddles in 1993.