Ambassador (Ret.) Nabi Sensoy, passed away at age of 73 in Izmir, Turkey. Pictured Ambassador Şensoy and Mrs Şensoy attending the Turkish Republic Day Ball in 2008 in Washington DC.
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Nabi Şensoy (born May 25, 1945, in Istanbul- died February 7, 2018, in İzmir, Turkey) is a former ambassador of Turkey to the United States.
Ambassador Nabi Şensoy was Turkey’s Ambassador to the United States between 2006-2009. He was recalled to Turkey in October 2007 after the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs passed a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. He returned to his position shortly afterwards. He resigned in December 2009.
During his tenure in Washington DC Ambassador Şensoy was very supportive of the Turkish American Organizations. He and his wife Mrs. Gulgun Şensoy held many cultural programs at the Turkish Embassy open to friends of Turkey and Turkish Americans at large.
In the spirit of his predecessor Ambassador Munir Ertegun who actively opposed segration in the United States in the face of fierce opposition from Capitol Hill and the State Department, Ambassador Şensoy and Mrs. Şensoy, supported the DC "Adopt a School Program" which reached out to mostly Black American children in DC rundown public schools in disadvantaged zip codes.
TASC, the Turkish American Community and many American friends remember Ambassador Şensoy fondly and offer deepest condolences to his family during this difficult time.
Ambassador Sensoy had an impressive career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Before his assignment to the U.S., Ambassador Sensoy served as Deputy Undersecretary of General Political Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2002-05), Ambassador to Russia (1998-2002), Deputy Undersecretary of Political Affairs for the European Union (1997-98), Director-General of the Department of Policy Planning at the Foreign Affairs Ministry (1995-97), and Ambassador to Spain (1990-95). He was also Chief of Staff to the president (1988-90), Consul General in London (1985-88), advisor to the prime minister (1983-85), as well as Counselor at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, DC (1980-83) and in Cuba (1979-80). Before that, he served as Head of Section at the Department of Bilateral Political Affairs for Western Europe (1977-79), First Secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Venezuela (1975-77), Vice Consul at the Turkish Consulate General in New York (1972-75), and Third Secretary and Second Secretary at the Department of Research in the Foreign Affairs Ministry (1970-72).
Ambassador Sensoy was a graduate of Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Ankara.
Source : The Turkish American Steering Committee