Ertuğrul Apakan
Apakan in February 2015
Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations
In office September, 2009 – September 2012
Preceded by	Baki İlkin
Succeeded by	Yaşar Halit Çevik
Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In office December 2006 – August 2009
Preceded by	Uğur Ziyal
Succeeded by	Feridun Sinirlioğlu
Personal details
Born	1947 (age 76–77) Bornova, İzmir Province, Turkey
Spouse	Lale Apakan
Children	Two
Alma mater	Ankara University
Profession	Foreign Affairs

Ertuğrul Apakan (born 1947) is a Turkish diplomat. Ambassador Apakan was the Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine between 2 April 2014 and 30 May 2019.

Ambassador Apakan has had a longstanding diplomatic career, most recently as the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations (2009 – 2012) and as Undersecretary at the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 – 2009).

Early history and professional life

Apakan was born in Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. He graduated from Bornova Anatolian High School and Ankara University, Faculty of Political Science (1969), and completed his master's degree in economics at the Ege University in Izmir.

Apakan joined the Turkish Foreign Ministry in 1971. After many diplomatic duties, he was the ambassador to Northern Cyprus from 1996 to 2000. Apakan served as Deputy Under-Secretary for Bilateral Political Affairs from 2004 to 2006 and as the Under-Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkey from December 2006 until August 2009. He became the Permanent Representative of Turkey to the United Nations in New York in August 2009. In September 2010, Apakan was the President of the United Nations Security Council. He also chaired the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee in 2010.

On 2 April 2014, he was appointed Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine by OSCE Chairperson-in-Office. He was replaced in this position by Yaşar Halit Çevik in 2019.