List of ambassadors of France to Turkey


The French Ambassador to Turkey is the successor post to the French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

History

The embassy, which was built from 1933 to 1939 and designed by architect Albert Laprade, is located in Ankara, in the Kavaklıdere neighborhood of district of Çankaya. The Palais de France in Istanbul is the seat of the former embassy until its transfer to Ankara in 1922. Today, it remains the residence of the ambassador when they are in Istanbul.
The land where the current embassy is located includes a plot proposed by the Turkish government in 1928, in response to a promise made to foreign countries in 1923 to find a site to host future diplomatic representations in Ankara and no longer in Istanbul. The plot offered to the French, too small, was enlarged the following year thanks to the purchase of adjacent land which belonged to the writer and diplomat Yakup Kadri. The building began to accommodate embassy staff in 1937.
The Salon des Fêtes, used for receptions in winter, features, among other things, Louis XV-style furniture and a tapestry by Charles Le Brun which depicts a meeting between Louis XIV and Philip IV of Spain.

List of ambassadors

FromUntilAmbassadors
19251926Albert Sarraut
19261928Nosky Daeschner
19281933Charles Pineton de Chambrun
19331936Albert Kammerer
19361938Henri Ponsot
19381940René Massigli
19441948Gaston Maugras
19481952Jean Lescuyer
19521955Jacques Tarbé de Saint-Hardouin
19551957Jean-Paul Garnier
19571963Henry Spitzmüller
19631965Bernard Hardion
19651970Gontran Begoügne de Juniac
19701973Arnaud Wapler
19731977Roger Vaurs
19771981Emile Cazimajou
19811985Fernand Rouillon
19851988Philippe Louët
19881991Eric Rouleau
19911996François Dopffer
19961999Daniel Lequertier
20002004Jean-Claude Cousseran
20042007Paul Poudade
20072011Bernard Émié
20112015Laurent Bili
20152020Charles Fries
20202023Hervé Magro
2023–Isabelle Dumont