List of ambassadors of the Netherlands to Turkey

The Dutch ambassador in Ankara is the official representative of the Government in Amsterdam to the Government of Turkey.

History

• During the Ottoman Empire the envoys where next the Sublime Porte, the central government in Istanbul.Ottoman Empire was succeeded by Turkey and the capital was moved from İstanbul to Ankara. The title of the head of the state during the Ottoman times was Sultan. In the following list Sultans (Ottoman era) and Prime ministers (Turkish Republic era) are shown.(Turkish Republic was officially proclaimed in 1923)

List of representatives

Ottoman Empire

Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Prime Minister of Netherlands	Sultan	Term end
1612	Cornelius Haga	Büyükelçi	Maurice, Prince of Orange	Ahmed I	1639
1639	Henrico Cops	Chargé d'affaires[1]	Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange	Murad IV	1647
1647	Nikolo Ghijsbert	Chargé d'affaires	Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange	Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire	1654
1654	Levinus Warner	(1619-1665) Temsilci	Johan de Witt	Mehmed IV	1665
1665	François de Brosses	Geçici Temsilci[2]	Johan de Witt	Mehmed IV	1668
1667	Joris Croock	Temsilci (Istanbul'a) Geboren, 28 dec 1631, Middelburg [3]	Johan de Witt	Mehmed IV	1667
1668	Jacobus Colyer	Büyükelçi	Johan de Witt	Mehmed IV	1682
1682	Jacobus Colyer	Büyükelçi	William III of England	Mehmed IV	1725
1692	Coenraad van Heemskerck	Coenraad van Heemskerck	William III of England	Ahmed II	1694
1725	Bastiaan Fagel	Chargé d'affaires	States General of the Netherlands	Ahmed III	1727
1727	Cornelis Calkoen (1696-1764)	Cornelis Calkoen (1696-1764)	States General of the Netherlands	Ahmed III	1744
1747	Elbert baron de Hochepied	Büyükelçi (*6. Januar 1706 in Izmir (Smyrna), Turkije, d. at Pera, II Feb. 1763,) son of Daniël Johan Baron de Hochepied und Clara Catharina	William IV, Prince of Orange	Mahmud I	1763
1763	Mathias van Asten	(1699 - 1718) Geçici vekil	William V, Prince of Orange	Mustafa III	1764
1764	Conrad Godard Nicolas Schutz	Geçici vekil[4]	William V, Prince of Orange	Mustafa III	1765
1765	Willem Gerrit Dedel (1726 - 1768)	Büyükelçi (* 1726 1768)	States General of the Netherlands	Mustafa III	1768
1768	Friedrich Johan Robert von Weiler	1775 de Büyükelçi (* 1724-1776)	William V, Prince of Orange	Mustafa III	1776
1776	Joost Frederik Tor	Chargé d'affaires[5]	William V, Prince of Orange	Abdul Hamid I	1778
1778	Reinier van Haaften	(1646-1733) Büyükelçi	William V, Prince of Orange	Abdul Hamid I	1784
1764	George Ferdinand Kroll	Chargé d'affaires	William V, Prince of Orange	Mustafa III	1785
1785	Frederik Gijsbert baron van Dedem van de Gelder	(1743-1820) Büyükelçi	William V, Prince of Orange	Abdul Hamid I	1808
1808	Gaspard Testa	(1770-1847) Chargé d'affaires	Louis Bonaparte	Mahmud II	1810
1810		French occupation period	Napoléon Louis Bonaparte	Mahmud II	1814
1814	Gaspard Testa	Chargé d'affaires	William I of the Netherlands	Mahmud II	1825
1825	Hugo van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1781-1853)	Büyükelçi	William I of the Netherlands	Mahmud II	1829
1829	Baron Gaspard Testa	1843 te Büyükelçi	William I of the Netherlands	Mahmud II	1846
1846	Baron Nicolaas Willem Mollerus	Mulim elçi	William II of the Netherlands	Abdülmecid I	1854
1855	Julius Philip Jacob Adriaan graaf van Zuylen van Nijevelt	1856 da Mulim elçi (1819-1894) [6]	Floris Adriaan van Hall	Abdülmecid I	1860
1860	Henri Charles du Bois	Minister Plenipotentiary	Floris Adriaan van Hall	Abdülmecid I	1862
1863	Charles Malcolm Ernest George Graaf van Bylandt	Minister Plenipotentiary was born on June 28, 1818 in Brussel, son of Willem Frederik Graaf van Bylandt and Mary Christiane Hughes	Johan Rudolf Thorbecke	Abdülaziz I	1865
1865	Otto Willem Johan Berg van Middelburgh		Johan Rudolf Thorbecke	Abdülaziz I	1871
1872	Maurice Jean Louis Jacques Henri Antoine Heldewier	(*1829-1880) Minister Resident[7]	Gerrit de Vries (politician)	Abdülaziz I	1877
1878	Lodewijk Arend Helias van Ittersum	Minister Resident[8]	Joannes Kappeyne van de Coppello	Abdul Hamid II	1881
1881	Leonard Henri Ruyssenaers	Chargé d'affaires[9]	Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg	Abdul Hamid II	1882
1882	Rudolf August Alexander Eduard von Pestel	(1838-1923) Minister Resident	Theo van Lynden van Sandenburg	Abdul Hamid II	1884
1884	Dirk Arnold Willem van Tets van Goudriaan	Mister Resident until 1890 Minister Plenipotentiary	Jan Heemskerk	Abdul Hamid II	1893
1893	Othon Daniel van der Staal van Piershil	(1853-1937) Minister Plenipotentiary	Gijsbert van Tienhoven	Abdul Hamid II	1899
1899	Willem Ferdinand Henry von Weckherlin	(* 1842 † 1906) in 1882 he was Dutch Ambassador to the United States.	Nicolaas Pierson	Abdul Hamid II	1904
1904	Jan Constantijn Nicolaas van Eys	Chargé d'affaires (* 13 Dec. 1856 5 April 1883 te 's-Gravenhage) son of Theodorus Hendrik, —	Abraham Kuyper	Abdul Hamid II	1904
1904	Dmitry Louis graaf van Balandt	Minister Plenipotentiary	Abraham Kuyper	Abdul Hamid II	1907
1907	Johan Paul van Limburg Stirum	Chargé d'affaires	Theo de Meester	Abdul Hamid II	1909
1909	Joseph van der Does de Willebois	Minister Plenipotentiary	Theo Heemskerk	Mehmed V	1919
1919	Willem Bernard Reinier van Welderen Rengers	Minister Plenipotentiary (1865-1930)	Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck	Mehmed VI	1931

Turkish Republic

Diplomatic agrément/Diplomatic accreditation	Ambassador	Observations	Prime Minister of Netherlands	Prime Minister of Turkey	Term end
1931	Jan Dirk van Ketwich Verschuur (1939-1988)		Charles Ruijs de Beerenbrouck	İsmet İnönü	1933
1933	Binnert Philip van Harinxma thoe Slooten (1893—1969)	Chargé d'affaires[10]	Hendrikus Colijn	İsmet İnönü	1937
1938	Philips Visser		Hendrikus Colijn	Celâl Bayar	1944
1945	Wilhelmus Aloisius Augustinus Maria Daniëls		Willem Schermerhorn	Şükrü Saracoğlu	1951
1951	Willem Huender	(b. 1900 - d. 1963)	Willem Drees	Adnan Menderes	1954
1955	Mathieu Marie Léon Savelberg	(* May 2, 1900 in Maastricht)	Willem Drees	Adnan Menderes	1958
1958	Herman Hagenaar		Louis Beel	Adnan Menderes	1964
1964	Age Robert Tammenoms Bakker	*From 1970 to 1975 he was ambassador in Moscow.	Victor Marijnen	İsmet İnönü	1970
1970	Herman Henry Dingemans		Piet de Jong	Süleyman Demirel	1972
1973	Coenraad Theodoor Rolf van Baarda	(* April 24, 1916 December 7, 2003) ambassador in Tunis[11]	Joop den Uyl	Mehmet Naim Talu	1975
1976	Jacobus Johannes Derksen	Koos Derksen (1922-July 21, 1980) Jacobus Johannes Derksen came close to representing the Netherlands in Vietnam twice in the course of his diplomatic career. From 1965 to 1968 he was Chargé d'affaires in Saigon (South Vietnam). In 1980 he was ambassador in Bangkok (Thailand) when the government in Hanoi had given its agrément to his accredicion to Hanoi, Derksen unexpectedly died on July 21, 1980[12]	Joop den Uyl	Süleyman Demirel	1980
1980	Hugo Christiaan Georg Carsten	(* June 2, 1926 in Stockholm) [13]	Dries van Agt	Bülent Ulusu	1984
1984	Peter Cornelis Nieman	(1930-2005)	Ruud Lubbers	Turgut Özal	1986
1986	Ben Bot		Ruud Lubbers	Turgut Özal	1989
1989	Jan Tonny Warmenhoven	(*October 20, 1932 te Soemenep) 1986 to 1989 he was ambassador in Algiers	Ruud Lubbers	Yıldırım Akbulut	1993
1993	Jan Nepomuk Josef Bedrich Horák	(*September 15, 1966)	Ruud Lubbers	Tansu Çiller	1995
1996	Nikolaos van Dam		Wim Kok	Necmettin Erbakan	1999
April 15, 1999	Sjoerd Izaak Hendrik Gosses		Wim Kok	Bülent Ecevit	2005
2005	Marcel Kurpershoek		Jan Peter Balkenende	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	2009
2009	Jan Paul Dirkse	Jan Paul Dirkse [14]	Jan Peter Balkenende	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	2013
2013	Ronald Keller		Mark Rutte	Recep Tayyip Erdoğan	2015
2016	Cornelis van Rij	Kees van Rij From 2008 to 2012 he was Ambassador in Athens. From 2012 to 2015 he was ambassador in Madrid. is married to Marie-Jeanne Duijnstee. They have three children[15]	Mark Rutte	Binali Yıldırım

Coordinates: 39°52′03″N 32°51′29″E / 39.867444°N 32.857966°E / 39.867444; 32.857966 ^[16]

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