Friday, October 9, 2015

Diplomacy : Turkey in India -A Pictorial moment with Ambassador of Turkey to India ( Text Srimal Fernando)

Diplomacy : Turkey in India -A Pictorial moment with Ambassador of Turkey to India ( Text Srimal Fernando)




Picture -H.E Dr. Burak Akçapar ( L) Ambassador of Turkey to India posing with Srimal Fernando ( R)

H.E Dr. Burak Akçapar Ambassador of Turkey to India .The Ambassador is also accredited to the Nepal and the Maldives. Ambassador Akçapar is scholar, author and a career diplomat whose previous appointments included: is a Turkish diplomat,. 


Ambassador Dr. Burak Akçapar served as Deputy Director General for Political Affairs focusing on South Asia at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs From 2009-2011: and was the Deputy Chief of Mission of the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC .2006-2008. In the decade between 1988 and 1997: He served at the Turkish missions in Qatar (Deputy Chief of Mission, Turkish Embassy in Doha) and Germany (Vice Consul of the Turkish Consulate General in Hamburg); and twice at the International Security and Disarmament department of the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Associate Prof. Dr. Akçapar has completed a variety of academic degree and executive training programs at a number of colleges and universities in Turkey, Germany and the United States as well as the Turkish Diplomatic Academy.

Dr. Burak Akçapar has published three international books: "People's Mission to the Ottoman Empire: M.A. Ansari and the Indian Medical Mission , 1912-13" (2014, Oxford University Press); "Turkey's New European Era" (2006, Rowman and Littlefield); "The International Law of Conventional Arms Control in Europe" (1996, Nomos); as well as three major international book chapters on arms control and international defence cooperation; and numerous academic articles and papers on a range of international issues. Ambassador Burak Akçapar is married to social anthropologist Associate Professor Dr. Şebnem Köşer Akçapar.

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

War to Peace: My journey back by Srimal Fernando

War to Peace: My journey back by Srimal Fernando ‘( Patriotic Hindi song “ The Rising” Mangal Pandey )- ………."Long Live My Country Sri Lanka our home land”.. Our solidarity was proven and it is a very significant chapter in the history. We are a country of good people with progressive ideas. Sri Lankan People had enough power to defeat the differences, intolerance and conflict .In the field of politics Sri Lanka will be recognised as ”United”