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Zeki Kuneralp (5 October 1914 – 26 July 1998) was a Turkish diplomat, who was brought up in exile in Switzerland after the murder of his father, Ali Kemal Bey, during the Turkish War of Independence.
Zeki Kuneralp (5 Ekim 1914, İstanbul - 26 Temmuz 1998, İstanbul ), Türk diplomat. Yaşamı. Ali Kemal 'in oğludur. Babasının öldürülmesinden sonra ailesiyle birlikte sınır dışı edildi, İsviçre 'de hukuk eğitimi gördü. Cumhurbaşkanı İsmet İnönü 'nün özel izniyle Türkiye'ye döndü ve Dışişleri Bakanlığı 'na girdi.
Zeki Kuneralp (1914-1998) was one of Turkey’s most gifted, well-liked and influential diplomats of the second half of the twentieth century. This book, dispassionately edited, introduced and annotated by his son, the scholar-publisher Sinan Kuneralp, is the first of a promised series of six volumes.
Zeki Kuneralp, diplomat: born Istanbul 5 October 1914; Turkish ambassador to Berne 1960; Turkish ambassador to London 1964-66, 1969-72; Secretary- General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ankara...
Zeki Kuneralp, 1978 yılında Madrid'de görev yaparken, makam aracı Ermeni terör örgütü ASALA'nın hedefi olmuş, saldırıda eşi Necla Kuneralp şehit edilmişti (2 Haziran 1978). Madrid Büyükelçisi iken kendi isteğiyle emekliye ayrıldı. 26 Temmuz 1998’de İstanbul’da hayatını kaybetti.
Zeki Kuneralp was twice Turkish Ambassador in London and, in between, secretary-general of the foreign ministry in Ankara. He finished his career, which was marked not only by great achievements but by great personal tragedy, as ambassador at Madrid. His Just a Diplomat is the memoir of this career, prefixed by a short account of his early life.
The book treats in detail the major problems with which Kuneralp was directly concerned at each of his postings: that is, meeting the right people abroad, promoting Turkish interests, reporting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, subordinating local matters to the political and economic goals of Turkey, and conducting diplomacy so as always to ...
