Yaşar Halit Çevik, (born 1955 in
Gölcük, Kocaeli
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It ...
,
Turkey
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) is a Turkish
ambassador
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.
Private life and education
He finished in 1978 his studies at the department of international relationships at the
Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi (Ankara University School of Political Science). He speaks English. He is married and has two children.
Working life
In 1979, he started to work for (''Government Office for Cultural Affairs-Bilateral Economical Affairs''). He worked at the embassy of
Khartum in 1981 and became the consul of Turkey in
Stuttgart in 1983. In 1989, he became consul at the consulate general of Turkey in
Athens
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. After several diplomatic assignments, he was the
consul general
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in
Zurich between 1995-1997 and the ambassador to Syria between 2004 and 2009. In 2009, he became the undersecretary for bilateral political affairs. From 2012 to October 2016, he is the
Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations
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. Since 2019 he heads the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to the eastern Ukraine as a chief monitor.
Ambassador Yaşar Halit Çevik
OSCE
References
1955 births
Living people
Turkish diplomats
Ambassadors of Turkey to Greece
Ambassadors of Turkey to Syria
Permanent Representatives of Turkey to the United Nations
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