Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan appointed on Thursday a new communications director, Burhanettin Duran.
Duran, a deputy at the ministry since last year, replaces Fahrettin Altun, whom Erdoğan appointed in 2018 to launch a newly-formed communications directorate employing some 1,500 people in Türkiye and abroad.
Duran, the new director, focused primarily on Africa in his time at the foreign ministry, taking a role in Türkiye's mediation of talks between Ethiopia and Somalia late last year.
The official presidential gazette said Altun would lead Türkiye's human rights and equality council on leaving the directorate.