User:Agurbuz59/Devrim Öztürk

Devrim Öztürk (1967, Istanbul; February 6, 2023, Hatay) Turkish diplomat.

He graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations in 1989 and joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the same year. After various assignments, he served as the Consul General in Hamburg from 2009 to 2013. He also worked as the Head of Department in the Directorate General for South Asia and served as the Ambassador to Dhaka from September 1, 2015, to December 31, 2019. He was called back to Turkey for consultations on May 12, 2016, following the execution of Motiur Rahman Nizami, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami Party in Bangladesh, and returned to his duty approximately three months later. During this period, Ahmed Gürbüz served as the Charge d'Affaires.

As of December 2021, he was appointed as the Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hatay. Unfortunately, he lost his life on February 6, 2023, during the earthquake, trapped under the rubble of the Rönesans Rezidans building, and his body was never found.