Amb Sadık Arslan

H.E. Arslan has served in a distinguished diplomatic career spanning over three decades. In 2024–2025, he was appointed as Ambassador and Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Board, concurrently serving as the Acting Director General for Public Diplomacy and Strategic Communications at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 2023 to 2024, he served in the Minister’s Cabinet as Special Adviser to the Minister, and Member of the Foreign Policy Advisory Board. Between 2019 and 2023, he held the position of Permanent Representative of the Republic of Türkiye to the United Nations Office at Geneva, the Conference on Disarmament, and other international organizations in Geneva.

From 2017 to 2019, he was Chief Foreign Policy Adviser to the President in Ankara. From 2013 to 2017, he served as Ambassador of Türkiye to the Kingdom of the Netherlands and as Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Prior to that, from 2010 to 2013, he served as Chief Advisor to the President, Foreign Policy Advisor, and Minister Counsellor, as well as Deputy Director General of the Treaties Department at the Ministry. His earlier assignments included postings as Counsellor at the Turkish Embassy in Riyadh (2009–2010), First Secretary and Counsellor at the Embassy in London (2005–2009), and various positions in Ankara, Tel Aviv, and Jeddah between 1996 and 2005. He began his diplomatic service in 1996 as a Policy Officer at the Deputy Directorate General of Intelligence and Research. Prior to joining the Ministry, he worked as a Research Assistant at Anadolu University’s Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences from 1989 to 1996.

Ambassador Arslan holds a BA in International Relations from Ankara University (1988), an MA in Economics from Anadolu University (1990), a second MA in Political Science from Marquette University, USA (1995), a Diploma in Diplomatic Studies from Oxford University’s Foreign Service Programme at St. Edmund Hall (2006), and a PhD in Economic Policy from Anadolu University (2007). He is married and has two children.