President Erdoğan appoints envoy for normalization with Armenia

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Turkey and Armenia have appointed special envoys to normalize relations.

Serdar Kılıç, a former ambassador to the US, has been appointed as Turkey's envoy, according to a presidential decision published in the Official Gazette today (January 11).

Minister of Foreign Affairs Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in mid-December announced Kılıç's appointment.

There has been no diplomatic relations between Turkey and Armenia since they mutually closed borders in 1993. In 2008, the countries signed a normalization protocol but the process didn't continue.

Kılıç, 64, has been a diplomat since 1984. He served as the NATO Deputy Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 2006 and 2008 and Turkey's ambassador to Lebanon between 2008 and 2010.

He was the secretary general of Turkey's National Security Council from 2010 to 2012.

Kılıç was appointed as Turkey's ambassador to Japan in 2012. He served as the country's ambassador to the US between 2014 and 2021. (HA/VK)