Şükrü Elekdağ
Şükrü Elekdağ | |
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Member of Parliament for İstanbul | |
In office 3 November 2002 – 12 June 2011 | |
Constituency | 3rd electoral district |
Ambassador of Turkey to Japan | |
In office 1970–1974 | |
President | Fahri S. Korutürk |
Preceded by | |
Succeeded by | |
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affair | |
In office 1974–1979 | |
President | Fahri S. Korutürk |
Ambassador of Turkey to the United States | |
In office 1979–1989 | |
President | Fahri S. Korutürk Kenan Evren |
Preceded by | Melih Esenbel |
Succeeded by | |
Personal details | |
Born | Mustafa Şükrü Elekdağ September 29, 1924 Istanbul, Turkey |
Political party | Republican People's Party |
Alma mater | Istanbul Higher Education School of Economics and Commerce University of Paris |
Profession | Diplomat, academician, politician |
Website | http://sukruelekdag.wordpress.com/ |
Mustafa Şükrü Elekdağ (pronounced [ʃyˈcɾy elekdaː]; born 29 September 1924[1]) is a Turkish diplomat, academician and politician.
He served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ambassador of Turkey to Japan (1970–1974)[2]> and to the United States (1979–1989).[3] He was also the Member of Parliament (2002–2011) from the Republican People's Party.[1]
He was one of the prepotent foreign policy makers of Turkey in 1990s. In 1994, he wrote the about Turkey's neighborhood relations and national security policy.[4]
Elekdağ has played an important role in Turkey's Armenian genocide denial efforts.[5] In 1982, he claimed that Turkey had not threatened the lives of Jews due to the inclusion of the Armenian genocide in the program of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in Tel Aviv.[6] This claim was false.[7] Historian Taner Akcam describes Elekdag's policy on the Armenian Genocide as "extreme nationalist and aggressive denial".[8]
References[]
- ^ a b "Mustafa Şükrü Elekdağ". Grand National Assembly of Turkey. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ "Büyükelçilik Tarihi ve Önceki Büyükelçilerimiz" (in Turkish). T.C. Tokyo Büyükelçiliği. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
- ^ "Embassy History and Previous Ambassadors". Embassy of the Republic of Turkey, Washington, the United States of America. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ Elekdağ, Şükrü. "2½ War Strategy" (PDF). Center for Strategic Research. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
- ^ Hovannisian, Richard G. (2015). "Denial of the Armenian Genocide 100 Years Later: The New Practitioners and Their Trade". Genocide Studies International. 9 (2): 228–247. doi:10.3138/gsi.9.2.04. S2CID 155132689.
- ^ Auron, Yair (2003). The Banality of Denial: Israel and the Armenian Genocide. Rutgers University Press. p. 221. ISBN 0-7658-0834-X.
- ^ Ben Aharon, Eldad (2015). "A Unique Denial: Israel's Foreign Policy and the Armenian Genocide". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 42 (4): 638–654. doi:10.1080/13530194.2015.1043514. S2CID 218602513.
- ^ "Approaching 2015: How to Assess Erdoğan's Statement on the Armenian Genocide?". E-International Relations. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
External links[]
- Şükrü Elekdağ "Bakış", official website (in Turkish)
- Şükrü Elekdağ, Twitter account (in Turkish)
- Profile at Grand National Assembly of Turkey (in Turkish)
- 1924 births
- People from Istanbul
- Galatasaray High School alumni
- Marmara University alumni
- University of Paris alumni
- Contemporary Republican People's Party (Turkey) politicians
- Ambassadors of Turkey to Japan
- Ambassadors of Turkey to the United States
- Living people
- Deputies of Istanbul
- Members of the 23rd Parliament of Turkey
- Members of the 22nd Parliament of Turkey
- Turkish expatriates in France