Name : Oğuzhan ERTUĞRUL

Place and date of birth : Siirt/Türkiye,21 June 1968

Education : School of International Relations, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Ankara, Turkey, 1990

Languages : English

Marital Status: Married with one son

CAREER :

Joined Foreign Service, 1991

In-service training, Diplomatic Academy, 1991-1992

Foreign service officer candidate, Consular Affairs Department,1992-1993

Military Service, 1993

Foreign Service Officer Candidate, Attache, Consular Affairs Department, MFA, 1993-1994

Attache, Third Secretary, Turkish Embassy-Cairo, 1994-1997

Third Secretary, Second Secretary, Turkish Embassy-Athens, 1997-1999

Second Secretary, NATO Department, MFA, 1999-2000

Second Secretary, First Secretary; Office of the Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to the President, 2000-2002

First secretary, counsellor (12 june 2005); Turkish Embassy-Washington, D.C., 2002-2006

Chief of Section, Head of Department; Bilateral Political Relations with the U.S. and Canada, MFA, 2006-2008

Counsellor, First Counsellor; Turkish Delegation to NATO, 2008-2012

Head of Department; NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Affairs, MFA, 2012-2013

Acting Deputy Director General, NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Affairs, MFA, 2013-2014

Deputy Director General, NATO and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Affairs, MFA, 2014-2017

Ambassador to Afghanistan, 2017-2021

Member of MFA Declassification Commission, 2021

Coordinator for Ambassadors Conference, 2021-2022

Director General for South Asia, 2022-2024

Ambassador to Japan, 31 December 2024-