Ambassador Ersin Erçin is a senior Turkish

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, with an extensive experience in

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particularly on matters of international, Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security,

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, and economic and environmental security.

Early life and career

Ersin Erçin has served in a range of positions in the

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Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

, and in diplomatic missions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America. He has also earned multiple assignments to represent Turkey at multilateral and security organizations such as the

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(OECD) in

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, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe ( CSCE), the

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(OSCE) in

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, and the

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. Erçin has lectured at universities as well as civilian and military groups on the topics of early warning, crisis management, conflict prevention and resolution, and post-conflict rehabilitation. After joining the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1981, Erçin served in the position of Third Secretary in the Department of Economic Relations and later as Second Secretary for the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the OECD in Paris. From 1989, he continued with consecutive and increasingly senior assignments in Vienna at the CSCE and, later, the newly named OSCE, the largest regional security organization in the world. He served at OSCE as Turkey’s deputy permanent representative from 2001 to 2004. In 2004, he was selected as Turkey’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the

in New York and later as Minister Counselor for the Ministry’s Department of North and South America. Earlier in his career, Erçin was posted to the Turkish Embassy in

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, with the rank of Second Secretary, and in

Damascus Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Kno ...

Syria Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant. It borders the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to Syria–Turkey border, the north, Iraq to Iraq–Syria border, t ...

, as

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. In 2009, he was appointed

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to the Federative Republic of

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. Ambassador Erçin is a graduate of the Faculty of

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, with a specialization in

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and organizations.

Chronology

References

Statement by Mr. Ersin Erçin, Minister-Counsellor, Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the UN at the 14th Session of Commission on Sustainable Development, New York, 1 May 2006

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100127071033/http://www.un.int/turkey/stat4.html Statement by ERSİN ERÇİN Deputy Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations debate of the first committee general assembly, 60th session New York, 6 October 2005]
14th Session of High Level committee on South-South cooperation, New York, 31 May 2005

United Nations South-South cooperation for development, 15 June 2005

OSCE Conference On Globalization, Hofburg, Vienna, 3-4 July 2003

Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development New York, 18 April 2005

Second Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action to Prevent, Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All Its Aspects New York, 11-15 July 2005

United Nations General Assembly GA/PAL/973 of 29 November 2004

UNRWA - Fourth Cttee debate 2 November 2005

International Day of Solidarity 2004 - Special bulletin ,26 October 2005

Nuclear-weapon-free zone in the Middle East - First Cttee debate 6 October 2005

United Nations General Assembly A/AC.183/PV.283 of 29 November 2004

Third Review Conference of the parties to the convention of the prohibition of the general development, production and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction, Geneva, 24 September 1991

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Ambassador Ersin Erçin's Resume

Participated Conferences at OSCE

Participated Conferences at UN
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Early life and career

Chronology

See also

References

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