Faruk Loğoğlu
| Osman Faruk Loğoğlu | |
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| Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary | |
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In office March 2000 – September 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Korkmaz Haktanır |
| Succeeded by | Sıktı Uğur Ziyal |
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| Born |
October 15, 1941 Ankara, Turkey |
Osman Faruk Loğoğlu (born 1941) is a Turkish diplomat and the former Turkish ambassador to the United States of America, having served from 2001 to 2005.
Loğoğlu graduated from Tarsus American College and received his undergraduate and master's degree in political science at Brandeis University in Waltham, MA on the Wien International Scholarship, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1970.
Loğoğlu has more than thirty-five years of experience in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Services (MFS), and has specifically addressed issues relating to Turkey's external affairs, the Middle East and Europe. Loğoğlu is currently the president of the Eurasian Strategic Studies Center (ASAM), one of the leading think tanks in Turkey, headquartered in Ankara. Additionally, he serves as deputy chairman of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, as acting president of the Foundation for Local Volunteers for Disaster Relief, and as a member of the board of the Strategic Studies Center of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Prior to entering the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Services, Loğoğlu was a lecturer in political science at Middlebury College in Vermont, from 1969 to 1970.
From 1973 to 1976, Loğoğlu held the position of first secretary at the European Union and in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1976 to 1978.
During the 1980s Ambassador Loğoğlu was the head of the Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs where his responsibilities centered primarily on bilateral political affairs and Cyprus and Greece issues, serving as a Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations in New York from 1980 to 1984.
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