Hakan Fidan

Hakan Fidan (born 1968) is a Turkish politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since June 2023, after thirteen years directing the National Intelligence Organization ^{1 2}.

Fidan was born on 17 July 1968 in the Hamamönü quarter of Ankara, to a Kurdish father from Van province - of the Hesenan tribe - and a Turkish mother from Denizli ^{1 3}. He took a degree in management and political science from the University of Maryland Global Campus and his master's and doctorate at Bilkent University, his 2006 dissertation treating diplomacy in the information age ¹.

Fidan served as a non-commissioned officer in the Turkish Land Forces from 1986 to 2001, including with NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Germany ¹. He directed the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) from 2003 to 2007 and advised Prime Minister Erdoğan on security ¹. Appointed to lead the National Intelligence Organization in May 2010, he shaped Turkey's support for the Syrian rebels, its opening toward Iran and the secret Kurdish peace talks, and helped suppress the July 2016 coup attempt; in 2017 he handed Germany's BND a list of 300 alleged Gülen supporters, which led Berlin to warn those named ¹. On 4 June 2023 he became Minister of Foreign Affairs ¹. No text read for this record names a faith for Fidan himself, so his faith is recorded as unknown ^{1 2 3 4}.

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