Ankara,historically known as Ancyra and Angora,is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia,the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and 5.7 million in Ankara Province,making it Turkey's second-largest city after Istanbul,but first by the urban area.
Li Lianjie,better known by his stage name Jet Li,is a Chinese film actor,film producer,martial artist,and retired Wushu champion. He is a naturalized Singaporean citizen. He is widely regarded as one of the most iconic Chinese film stars and one of the most renowned martial arts stars of his generation.
Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again from 2011 to 2017. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Francis Joseph Ricciardone Jr. is a former President of the American University in Cairo. Ambassador Ricciardone was the United States ambassador to Turkey between 2011 and 2014. Previously he was Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul,Afghanistan. He was also on leave from the U.S. Department of State as a guest scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has served as U.S. Ambassador to the Arab Republic of Egypt (2005–2008),the Republic of the Philippines and the Republic of Palau (2002–2005). As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service,he received U.S. government and other organization awards for his work in foreign policy and program management,political reporting and analysis,and peacekeeping.
W. Robert Pearson is a former Foreign Service Officer who served as United States Ambassador to Turkey (2000–2003) and later as Director of Human Resources in the Foreign Service until his retirement in 2006. He became the fourth President of the nonprofit International Research &Exchanges Board (IREX) in November 2008.
Denmark–Turkey relations are the current and historical relations between Denmark and Turkey. Denmark has an embassy in Ankara,and Turkey has an embassy in Copenhagen. Both countries are members of NATO. Diplomatic relations between Denmark and Turkey were put under pressure in 2014 because of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy and Roj TV affair (Roj TV's broadcasting license was suspended by the Supreme Court in Denmark on February 27,2014). Denmark is a member of the European Union,Turkey is not a member.
China–Turkey relations are the international relations between China and Turkey. Current official relations were established in 1934 and Turkey recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) on 5 August 1971.
Joseph Caron is a Canadian diplomat. He served as the former Canadian high commissioner to India and former Canadian ambassador to China and Japan. Born and raised in the small francophone agricultural village of Pain Court in South-western Ontario (Canada),Caron attended the University of Ottawa.
John Rodney Bass II is an American diplomat,who has served as the Under Secretary of State for Management since December 2021. He was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 2017 to 2020,the United States Ambassador to Turkey from 2014 to 2017 and the United States Ambassador to Georgia from 2009 to 2012.
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019,became the second ever diplomat to be appointed as External Affairs minister,after Natwar Singh. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.
Bangladesh–Turkey relations are the bilateral relations between Bangladesh and Turkey. Both countries are members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. Turkey has an embassy in Dhaka and Bangladesh has an embassy in Ankara and a consulate in Istanbul.
Andrew Sparkes CMG is a former British diplomat who was ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo,Kosovo and Nepal.
Qin Gang is a Chinese diplomat and politician who has been serving as minister of foreign affairs of China since December 2022. He is China's second-highest diplomat after Wang Yi,director of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee Foreign Affairs Commission Office.
Şahabettin Mert Fırat is a Turkish actor and screenwriter.
Song Aiguo is a retired Chinese Ambassador.
Andrei Karlov,the Russian Ambassador to Turkey,was assassinated by Mevlüt Mert Altıntaş,an off-duty Turkish police officer,at an art exhibition in Ankara,Turkey on the evening of 19 December 2016. The assassination took place after several days of protests in Turkey over Russian involvement in the Syrian Civil War and the battle over Aleppo.
Gong Xiaosheng is a Chinese ambassador.
