Ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs & Director for EU Affairs
Deputy MOFA Kaymakcı was born on 21 March 1968 in Tosya, Kastamonu, Turkey.
Graduated from the Economics Department of the Faculty of Political Science
of Ankara University in 1988, he had two Master’s Degrees from the London
School of Economics and College of Europe (Brugge) in the field of
economics and politics of the European Union respectively.
He worked at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ankara at the
Directorate General (DG) Balkan States (1994-95), DG for International
Economic Organizations (1995-96), DG Policy Planning (2002-03) and DG
European Union (2008).
Abroad, he served at the Turkish Embassy in Tripoli (1997-99), at the NATO
Senior Civilian Representative’s Office in Kabul (2004-05) and three times
at the Turkish Permanent Delegation to the EU in Brussels (1999-02, 2005-08
and 2017-18).
He was the Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to Turkey’s EU Minister and Chief
Negotiator and Director for EU Communication at the EU Ministry (2009-11).
He served as the Consul General of Turkey in Basra from 2011 to 2013. In
October 2013 he was appointed as the Ambassador of Turkey to Iraq where he
remained in office until January 2017. He was the Permanent Representative
of Turkey to the European Union, from February 2017 to August 2018. He was
appointed as the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs & Director for EU
Affairs in August 2018.
Deputy MOFA Kaymakcı is a holder of NATO Medal for his service in
Afghanistan and was selected one of the three Alumnus of the Year 2007 of
the College of Europe.
He speaks English and French.