Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Turkish politician and diplomat
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Place of Birth: Antakya, Turkey
About Vahit Melih Halefoğlu
- Vahit Melih Halefoglu (19 November 1919 – 21 January 2017) was a Turkish politician and diplomat. Following his education at the School of Political Science in Ankara University in 1942 he entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- Between 1962 and 1983, Halefoglu served as ambassador in Beirut (1962–1965), Kuwait City (1964–1965), Moscow (1965–1966, 1982–1983), Den Haag (1966–1970) and Bonn (1972–1982). After the general elections held in 1983, Turgut Özal appointed him Minister of Foreign Affairs from outside of the parliament.
- At the intermediate general elections of 1986, he was elected deputy of Ankara from the Motherland Party (ANAP).
- He did not stand for election in the 1987 general elections and ended his political career.
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