Turkish politician

Mustafa Şükrü Elekdağ (pronounced:; born 29 September 1924) is a Turkish diplomat, academician and politician.

He served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Amb*ador of Turkey to *an (1970–1974)> and to the United States (1979–1989). He was also the Member of Parliament (2002–2011) from the Republican People's Party.

He was one of the prepotent foreign policy makers of Turkey in 1990s. In 1994, he wrote the 2½ War Strategy about Turkey's neighborhood relations and national security policy.

Elekdağ has played an important role in Turkey's Armenian genocide denial efforts. In 1982, he claimed that Turkey had not threatened the lives of Jews due to the inclusion of the Armenian genocide in the program of the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in Tel Aviv. This claim was false. Historian Taner Akcam describes Elekdag's policy on the Armenian Genocide as "extreme nationalist and aggressive denial".

References

External links

• Şükrü Elekdağ "Bakış", official website (in Turkish)
• Şükrü Elekdağ, Twitter account (in Turkish)
• Profile at Grand National *embly of Turkey (in Turkish)