UNDERSECRETARIES OF THE MIT
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Sonmez KOKSAL (1940 - )

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Political Sciences, the University of Ankara. He started his diplomatic career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a candidate official at the Department of the United Nations. Later on, he worked, in sequence, as Second Secretary at the Department of Bilateral Economic Relations, as Chief Secretary at the Standing Representation of Turkey to the Geneva Office of the UN, as Chief of Branch at the Department of International Economic Relations, as the Consul General in Burgas, as Undersecretary at the Embassy to Paris, as the Head at the Research and Middle East Departments, as Deputy Director General at the International Economic Relations, as Ambassador to Baghdad, and as the Standing Representative of Turkey to the European Council. On November 09, 1992 he was appointed as the Undersecretary of the MIT which he left on February 11, 1998. Since then, he has been working as the Ambassador to Paris.