Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik

Mehmet Ali İrtemçelik (born March 17, 1950, in Istanbul) is the previous ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to Germany.

After his ambassadorship to Sofia terminated, he served as the assistant Director in the Bilateral Political Relations Bureau of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs until January 11, 1999.

However, he left his diplomatic career to get into politics, and was elected as head of list from the Motherland Party (Turkish: Anavatan Partisi - ANAP) from the third circonscription of Istanbul (covering all of the Asian side of the city) on April 18, 1999.

After falling out with his former classmate from high school and party leader, Mesut Yılmaz, as well as with then-Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit after having accused him of not respecting, and trying to tinker with, the Constitution before the presidential elections of 2000,[1] he resigned on May 6, 2000, both from his party and the government to become an independent in the parliament.

[2] He did not seek re-election in 2002 and returned to diplomatic service when was appointed the Turkish ambassador to Germany by the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on October 16, 2003.