List of ambassadors of Turkey to Iraq

The ambassador of Turkey to Iraq is the official representative of the president and the government of the Republic of Turkey to the president and government of Iraq.

Ambassador of Turkey to Iraq
Incumbent Ali Rıza Güney
Ministry of Foreign Affairs Embassy of Turkey in Baghdad
Style	His Excellency
Reports to	Minister of Foreign Affairs
Appointer	President
Inaugural holder	Tahir Lütfü Tokalp

List of ambassadors

Name	Term Start	Term End	Ref.
Tahir Lütfü Tokalp	1 January 1929	1 January 1939	[1]
Ahmet Cevat Üstün	2 January 1939	1 January 1945
Nebil Bati	2 January 1945	31 December 1948
Rahmi Apak	1 January 1949	31 December 1952
Nedim Veysel İlkin	23 April 1953	23 April 1953
Mehmet Naci Perkel	27 November 1953	13 July 1954
Muzaffer Göksenin	30 October 1954	19 April 1957
Behçet Türkmen	29 March 1957	22 May 1959
Fuat Bayramoğlu	8 May 1959	28 September 1960
Seyfettin Turagay	28 September 1960	9 October 1964
Baha Vefa Karatay	19 November 1964	19 January 1967
Emin Ali Binkaya	26 January 1967	22 May 1968
Pertev Subaşi	29 May 1968	18 July 1972
Nazif Çuhruk	1 December 1972	3 October 1976
Sencer Asena	9 August 1978	28 May 1982
Nüzhet Kandemir	6 June 1982	1 October 1986
Sönmez Köksal	25 September 1986	25 December 1990
Necati Utkan	25 December 1990	31 December 1991
Sadi Çalişlar	5 March 1993	3 January 1997
Selim Karaosmanoğlu	31 December 1996	15 January 2001
Melih Mehmet Akat	13 January 2001	5 January 2003
Osman Ali Feyyaz Paksüt	29 December 2002	30 July 2004
Ahmet Ünal Çeviköz	16 November 2004	1 January 2007
Derya Kanbay	20 January 2007	1 October 2009	[2]
Murat Özçelik	10 October 2009	1 November 2011	[3]
Yunus Demirer	1 December 2011	17 September 2013	[4]
Faruk Kaymakcı	3 November 2013	25 January 2017	[5]
Fatih Yıldız	25 January 2017	1 May 2021	[6]
Ali Rıza Güney	1 May 2021	Present	[7]

See also

• Iraq–Turkey relations