Tansu Okandan

Mehmet Tansu Okandan (17 July 1942 – 5 January 2019) was a Turkish diplomat.

He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences in 1965. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he served as Turkey's first ambassador to Belarus in 1992–1998. He served as Turkey's ambassador to Australia from 2001 to 2006.

Apart from his ambassadorial duties, he served as the general director of bilateral political affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1998 to 2001.