Willem Gerrit Dedel (17 May 1726 in The Hague – 26 January 1768 in Büyükelçi (Constantinople)) was a Dutch politician and diplomat, who represented the States General of the Dutch Republic at the Sublime Porte.
[1] Dedel was Postmaster of the Post Office for Brabant, France, Spain and Portugal in The Hague before 1742.
[1] In 1764 he was appointed ambassador of the States General[Note 2] at the court of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa III, as successor of ambassador Mathias van Asten, who died in 1764 in office.
He wrote a journal about the journey, entitled: Kort dagverhael van mijn rijze uyt den Haeg nae Constantinopel welke ik begonnen heb in het einde van het jaer 1764 (Short journal of my voyage from the Hague to Constantinople that I started on at the end of the year 1764).
He died in office in his mansion in the diplomatic quarter of Constantinople in 1768[1]