Osman Ertuğ

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Mr. Osman Ertuğ (born 1949) served as the de facto ambassador of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to the United States of America ^[1] from 2002 to 2007, when he was succeeded by Hilmi Akil. As the TRNC is not recognized as sovereign, his title was officially that of Representative of the Turkish Cypriot Community in Washington DC.

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment. The word is also often used more liberally for persons who are known, without national appointment, to represent certain professions, activities and fields of endeavor such as sales.

Mr. Ertuğ served as the Representative of the TRNC in New York (de facto Chief of Mission to the United Nations) before taking up his Washington DC posting. He is regarded by the TRNC Foreign Ministry as a very capable diplomat.

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna and The Hague. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development and upholding international law. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. In 24 October 1945, at the end of World War II, the organization was established with the aim of preventing future wars. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The UN is the successor of the ineffective League of Nations.

The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Representative Office is a commercial enterprise of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and is operating in the United States. The United States does not formally recognise the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The staff of the Representative Offices do not have diplomatic visas and only operate within the United States using business visas. It is located at 1667 K Street, Northwest in Washington, D.C. The Representative Office in New York City is the de facto mission of the TRNC to the United Nations Organization.

Mr. Ertuğ is one of the framers of the TRNC's Unilateral Declaration of Independence.

The declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was a unilateral declaration of independence from the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriot parliament on 15 November 1983.

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↑ "TURKEY: US ENVOY MAKES HISTORIC VISIT TO TRNC REPRESENTATIVE". IPR Strategic Business Information Database. 21 June 2004. Retrieved 12 April 2011. According to Milliyet, Thomas Weston, the United States' special Cyprus envoy, visited Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) representative to Washington Ambassador Osman Ertug in his office. The visit was the first ever paid by an US official to the TRNC official building in the two decades of......

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[1] "TURKEY: US ENVOY MAKES HISTORIC VISIT TO TRNC REPRESENTATIVE". IPR Strategic Business Information Database. 21 June 2004. Retrieved 12 April 2011. According to Milliyet, Thomas Weston, the United States' special Cyprus envoy, visited Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) representative to Washington Ambassador Osman Ertug in his office. The visit was the first ever paid by an US official to the TRNC official building in the two decades of......