Embassy of Turkey, Berlin
The Turkish Embassy Berlin ( officially: Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Berlin; Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Büyükelçiliği Berlin or Berlin Büyükelçiliği TC ) is the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Turkey in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since 2012 Hüseyin Avni Karslioglu is accredited as Ambassador of the Republic of Turkey. The embassy is the largest diplomatic mission of the country worldwide. It has no Consular Section; the public transport is low because the local Consulate General is responsible for consular affairs.
Organization
The Turkish Embassy has around 100 employees. It serves the most numerous foreign government of Turkey. In total there are 13 general consulates in Germany and 30 consulates that are associated with the message. Consulates General are located in Berlin, Dusseldorf, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Hannover, Karlsruhe, Hürth near Cologne, Mainz, Munich, Munster, Nuremberg and Stuttgart.
Building
The building is located in the Tiergarten street in the embassy district. Turkey is thus to represent them back at their old location, which the Embassy from 1918 to 1945 and was located between the South African and the Italian Embassy.
It has a facade of limestone. The portal of copper is several stories high and is illuminated at night. The foyer walls have a girih pattern.
The building consists of two parts which are connected by a glass atrium. There is a ballroom for 1400 people. The cost of the new building are specified with 30 million euros.
History
The Turkish Embassy moved to coincide with the Federal Government and the Bundestag in 1999 by Bonn (→ Embassy of the Republic of Turkey in Bonn ) to Berlin and there. In an office building in the Rungestraße in the district center As the building was just at the stage of completion, the interior design could be fitted, as well as the security needs limited account could be worn. Externally, the office building but did not differ from a conventional office building and would not be significantly its function. So should give way to a new message since the relocation of the representation from Bonn to Berlin, the former consulate.
In 2000, Turkey acquired an additional area at the site of the old message; thus creating a roughly 9,000 -square-foot plot in the Tiergarten district. In January 2007, Turkey announced a competition to the 143 contributions were received to create m² net area without traffic area at the new location 6405. The remaining basement of the old embassy should also be integrated. The winning design of the competition saw a building in front with two four-storey wings and a connecting atrium. The two wings should, according to the architects Turkey's position on two continents symbolize, as well as the intermediary position between Orient and Occident. The left wing should receive traditional Turkish, the right German and Berlin motives. The incorporation of parts of the previous building from Bonn - such as the front door - was also planned the recovery of remains of the Ottoman building dating from before the war. Due to the similarities with the Federal Chancellery, also a building with two projecting wings and a connecting central part of the Berlin press ridiculed the building as " Bündüskünzlürümt ", which in turn caused upsets in a Turkish newspaper.
After some delays, the foundation stone took place in the summer of 2011, although not the winning design was implemented, but the third-place design.
The new embassy building was officially opened with a ceremony on 30 October 2012, the Turkish National Day, together with German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and 2000 guests from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The Turkish Consulate General in Berlin, however, had to move because of the message of moving from the inner city. Was originally a Moving to Potsdam provided in which the approximately 105,000 registered in Berlin Turkish nationals would have to regulate their consular have to go there, the Consulate General is now on the high road in Westend.