ANKARA - Turkish President Ahmet Necdet Sezer received Hansjoerg Kretschmer, head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Turkey, at the Cankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara today.
Kretschmer bade farewell to Sezer during the meeting.
Earlier, Kretschmer met Deniz Baykal, leader of the Republican People`s Party (CHP).
Kretschmer, who studied law and economics, joined in December 1978 the European Commission`s Directorate General for External Relations. On August 26th, 2002, he took up his function as Head of the European Commission Delegation to Turkey. Apart from his mother tongue German, he speaks English, French and Russian.