Ambassador Halil AKINCI

Category: Red Apple Diplomacy Award

Ambassador Halil AKINCI | Secretary General of Turkic Council

He was born in 1945 in Ula - Muğla, Turkey. He had graduated from Foreign Relations Department at Ankara University Faculty of Political Science. He had entered Republic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968. He had been Ambassador to Slovenia between 1998 and 2002; worked as an advisor in Foreign Ministry; had been director general in Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2002 and 2006; had been Ambassador to India between 2006 and 2008 and to Russia between 2008 and 2010. He had retired on age grounds in 2010 and has been appointed as secretary general of Cooperation Council of Turkic Speaking States (Turkic Council) for three years. He is fluent in English, French and Russian.