(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
Türkiye has designated Shakir Ozkan Torunlar as ambassador to
Israel by a presidential decree signed by President Recep Tayyip
Erdogan, reports citing .
The move came shortly after Israel had appointed current charges
d'affaires to Ankara Irit Lillian as its ambassador to Türkiye.
Torunlar was Türkiye's ambassador to Bangladesh in 2008-2010,
and he served as the Consul General to Jerusalem between 2010 and
2014. He was Türkiye's ambassador to India from 2017 to 2021.
Torunlar served as Director General of Bilateral Political Affairs
(South Asia) at the Foreign Ministry since 2014.
Torunlar became the ambassador appointed by Türkiye to Tel Aviv
after four years after the two countries had lowered their
diplomatic ties to the level of chargé d'affaires following the
United States' decision to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem in 2018.
The ties between the two nations have long been suffering in the
past decade, first due to the“One Minute” crisis in Davos and
later the killing of 10 Turkish men by Israeli commandos in an
incident dubbed the Mavi Marmara crisis.
Türkiye and Israel have been in a process of reconciliation
since late 2021 with the purpose of mending the sour ties between
the two regional neighboring countries. President Erdogan and
Israeli President Isaac Herzog as well as Prime Minister Yair Lapid
established senior-level contacts in the past months to make the
normalization possible. The two foreign ministers had announced the
decision to level up the mutual diplomatic representation at a
meeting in early summer.
Meanwhile, Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal was appointed as
Türkiye's ambassador to the United Nations, while Deputy Foreign
Minister Faruk Kaymakcı has been appointed as EU ambassador.
Ankara appointed Ambassador Zeki Levent Gumrukcu as the
country's permanent representative to NATO.
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