Yaşar Halit Çevik
Yaşar Halit Çevik, is a Turkish ambassador.He finished in 1978 his studies at the department of international relationships at the Ankara Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi. He speaks English. He is married and has two children.In 1979, he started to work for Kültür İşleri-İkili Ekonomik İşler Dairesi. He worked at the embassy of Khartum in 1981 and became the consul of Turkey in Stuttgart in 1983. In 1989, he became consul at the consulate general of Turkey in Athens. After several diplomatic assignments, he was the consul general in Zurich between 1995-1997 and the ambassador to Syria between 2004–2009. In 2009, he became the undersecretary for bilateral political affairs. From 2012 to October 2016, he is the Permanent Representative of Turkey in the United Nations.
