Английская Википедия:Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen
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Elif Çomoğlu Ülgen (born 1971 in Germany) is a Turkish diplomat and General Director of Eastern and Southern Africa in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1] She is the immediate past Turkey Ambassador to Pretoria.[2] She is Turkey's first ever female Consul General to Dubai, UAE.[3]
Education
She attended TED Ankara College for her high school education and graduated from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations.[4]
Career
She joined the Turkish ministry of foreign affairs in 1993 and was posted to serve in Pakistan. In 1995, She took office in the United Nations Permanent Mission to Turkey in Geneva. She was a political consultant at one of the NATO headquarters in Turkey and a Permanent Representative to the EU in Brussels. She became the officer in charge of military operations in Afghanistan and Libya at the NATO Permanent Mission and one of the planners of the NATO operation in Libya.[5][6]
She was appointed as the Consul General to Dubai in January 2012 and served until 2014. She was the Deputy Director General of Research at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in between 2014 and 2017.[4]
She resumed office as Turkey's ambassador to South Africa on February 2, 2017, and left office for Ayşegül Kandaş on June 23, 2021.[2][7] She is the General Director of Eastern and Southern Africa in the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1] (A role directly under Ambassador Burak Akçapar, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs(Turkey) on the Ministry's organizational chart).[8]
Family
She is married to Sinan Ülgen, and they both have three children, Ömer, Selim and Pamir. Ülgen's husband lives in Istanbul.[4] She is also the daughter-in-law of late ambassador Tanju Ülgen.[9]
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