ANKARA - Ambassador Levent Bilman will replace Namik Tan, spokesman for the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) who has been appointed as Turkey`s new Ambassador to Israel.
Bilman is expected to take over the post formally in January 2007.
Born in Aegean city of Canakkale in 1961, Bilman graduated from Ankara University`s International Relations Department and began to work at the MFA.
Bilman earlier served as the second secretary and first secretary at the Turkish Embassy in Tel Aviv, counsellor at Turkey`s Permanent Representation to the UN, and several other departments of the Ministry.
Ambassador Bilman worked as the head of the UN NGO Committee and the head of Cyprus Department of the MFA. He has been the deputy director general of the MFA Northeast Mediterranean (Cyprus-Greece) Department since 2004.