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Ambassador KORAY TARGAY

Date and Place of Birth     : 3 November 1947 – Trabzon/Turkey

Education		    : - German and Austrian High Schools in Istanbul/Turkey;

- B.PSc. at Faculty of Political Sciences – Ankara University/Turkey;

- LL.M. at the Law School - McGill University/Canada. Foreign Languages           : English, German

Marital Status 	            : Married with one son

Official Career at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs February 1973 - October 1973: Third Secretary at the Directorate General of Economic Affairs

October 1973 - April 1975: Military Service

April 1975 – October 1976: Third and Second Secretary at the Directorate General of Political Affairs

October 1976 – November 1979: Second Secretary and First Secretary at the Turkish Permanent Mission to the United Nations (UN) Office in Geneva/Switzerland

November 1979 - November 1981: First Secretary of the Turkish Embassy in Damascus/Syria

November 1981 - September 1984: Chief of Section at the Directorate General of Press and Information

September 1984 - October 1988: Turkish Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)-Montreal/Canada

October 1988 - September 1990: Head of Aviation Department at the Directorate General of Political Affairs

September 1990 - October 1994: Counsellor of the Turkish Embassy in Bonn/Germany

October 1994 - September 1996: Consul General of Turkey in Thessaloniki/Greece

September 1996 - August 1999: Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Director General for Bilateral Economic Affairs

August 1999 – April 2004: Ambassador of Turkey to Malaysia

April 2004 – November 2004: Ambassador, Counsellor at the Foreign Ministry

November 2004 – February 2007: Ambassador, Coordinator for Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon

February 2007 – May 2011: Ambassador of Turkey to the Czech Republic

August 2011 - January 2014: Ambassador, Head of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Office in Baku

Official Retirement

January 2015 -	: Ambassador, Special Representative for Silk Road Initiative