Türkiye appoints new ambassador to Ukraine

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has appointed a new ambassador to Ukraine.

Mustafa Levent Bilgen has been appointed ambassador to Ukraine, according to the Anadolu Agency.

"Mustafa Levent Bilgen has been appointed ambassador to Kyiv," the agency reported, citing diplomatic sources.

New ambassadors to Paris, Warsaw, Asunción, Madrid, Moscow, and other countries have also been appointed.

Ambassador Mustafa Levent Bilgen received a bachelor's degree from the US Department of Management at George Mason University in business administration. He also holds a master's degree in international business and transactions from the same university's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Bilgen joined the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1995. He was special advisor to National Security Council Secretary General Tahsin Burcuoglu from 2007 to 2009 and was consul general in Toronto from 2009 to 2011.

He was consul general in New York from 2011 to 2014 and was ambassador to Abu Dhabi from December 2014 to October 2016.

He has been an adviser to the Turkish Department of State since 2017. From 2018 to 2019, he was an advisor to the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs de-communisation committee.

Türkiye's previous ambassador to Ukraine, Yagmur Guldere, had been in office since January 2019.