Turgut Menemencioğlu

Turgut Menemencioğlu studied at Robert College and the University of Geneva’s law faculty. He entered the foreign ministry at the beginning of the Second World War and accompanied the Turkish delegation to the 1943 Cairo conference with İsmet İnönü, Franklin Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Later assignments took him to Bucharest, Geneva, Washington, and the United Nations. ^{1, 2}

As ambassador in Washington from 1962 to 1967, he repeatedly presented Ankara’s position on Cyprus. In December 1963 he objected to Archbishop Makarios’s proposed constitutional changes, emphasizing Turkish Cypriot veto rights and arrangements for the army and police. He urged American officials to counsel moderation; the American side in turn warned against an outright rejection of discussion. ³

He subsequently became secretary-general of the Central Treaty Organization and later ambassador in London. He retired in 1979. ¹