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Türkiye

U.S. diplomatic chiefs of mission to Türkiye

David Porter (Charge d'Affaires to Turkey 1831-39) David Porter (Minister to Turkey 1839-43) Dabney Smith Carr (Minister to Turkey 1843-49) George P. Marsh (Minister to Turkey 1849-53) Carroll Spence (Minister to Turkey 1853-57) James Williams (Minister to Turkey 1858-61) Edward Joy Morris (Minister to Turkey 1861-70) Wayne MacVeagh (Minister to Turkey 1870-71) George H. Boker (Minister to Turkey 1871-75) Horace Maynard (Minister to Turkey 1875-80) James Longstreet (Minister to Turkey 1880-81) Lewis Wallace (Minister to Turkey 1881-85) Samuel S. Cox (Minister to Turkey 1885-86) William C. Emmet (Charge d'Affaires to Turkey 1885) Oscar S. Straus (Minister to Turkey 1887-89) Solomon Hirsch (Minister to Turkey 1889-92) David P. Thompson (Minister to Turkey 1892-93) Alexander Terrell (Minister to Turkey 1893-97) James B. Angell (Minister to Turkey 1897-98) Oscar S. Straus (Minister to Turkey 1898-99) John G. A. Leishman (Minister to Turkey 1900-06) John G. A. Leishman (Ambassador to Turkey 1906-09) Oscar S. Straus (Ambassador to Turkey 1909-10) William W. Rockhill (Ambassador to Turkey 1911-13) Henry Morgenthau (Ambassador to Turkey 1913-16) Abram I. Elkus (Ambassador to Turkey 1916-17) Joseph C. Grew (Ambassador to Turkey 1927-32) Charles H. Sherrill (Ambassador to Turkey 1932-33) Robert P. Skinner (Ambassador to Turkey 1933-36) John Van A. MacMurray (Ambassador to Turkey 1936-41) Laurence A. Steinhardt (Ambassador to Turkey 1942-45) Edwin C. Wilson (Ambassador to Turkey 1945-48) George Wadsworth II (Ambassador to Turkey 1948-52) George C. McGhee (Ambassador to Turkey 1952-53) Avra M. Warren (Ambassador to Turkey 1953-56) Fletcher Warren (Ambassador to Turkey 1956-60) Raymond A. Hare (Ambassador to Turkey 1961-65) Parker T. Hart (Ambassador to Turkey 1965-68) Robert Komer (Ambassador to Turkey 1968-69) William J. Handley (Ambassador to Turkey 1969-73) William Butts Macomber, Jr. (Ambassador to Turkey 1973-77) Ronald I. Spiers (Ambassador to Turkey 1977-80) James W. Spain (Ambassador to Turkey 1980-81) Robert Strausz-Hupé (Ambassador to Turkey 1981-89) Morton I. Abramowitz (Ambassador to Turkey 1989-91) Richard Clark Barkley (Ambassador to Turkey 1991-94) Marc Isaiah Grossman (Ambassador to Turkey 1994-97) Mark Robert Parris (Ambassador to Turkey 1997-2000) W. Robert Pearson (Ambassador to Turkey 2000-03) Eric S. Edelman (Ambassador to Turkey 2003-05) Ross L. Wilson (Ambassador to Turkey 2005-08) James Franklin Jeffrey (Ambassador to Turkey 2008-10)


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