After two years of work in the Department for Multilateral Political Affair in the Ministry, she was appointed in 1986 First Secretary and Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the OECD in Paris, where sh was until 1990.
After one year of a service as an advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister for Foreign Policy, she was assigned to the Turkish Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal as a Counselor serving until 1997.
Back at the Ministry, Korutürk worked as head in the departments for America, Pacific and the East, Human Rights Commission and Court.
In 1999, she was promoted to Minister Plenipotentiary, Deputy Director General of the departments for the Central Europe and the Baltics, and then for European Union (EU) Political Affairs.
[3] Returned home, she became Senior Advisor for Foreign Policy to the Prime Minister and the President, and then in April 2008, she was promoted to Deputy Undersecretary in the Ministry responsible for EU and European Affairs.