Ertugrul Apakan

Ambassador Ertugrul Apakan of Turkey was appointed chief monitor of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in European’s Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine on April 2, 2014 by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office, Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter. Apakan has had a longstanding diplomatic career, most recently as the permanent representative of Turkey to the United Nations (2009 – 2012) and as undersecretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 – 2009).