Mehmet Güney

Mehmet Güney ( May 3, 1936 in Siirt ) is a Turkish lawyer and diplomat. He served, among others, as an ambassador of his home country in Cuba, Singapore and Indonesia, and from 1992 to 1997 Member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations. Since 1999 he has been a judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, where he joined in 2001, the Appeals Chamber, which exist as a joint facility of Justice and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Life

Mehmet Güney was born in 1936 in the eastern Anatolian city of Siirt and completed a law and political science studies at the University of Ankara. Then he initially from 1959 to 1964 worked as an administrative lawyer before he entered the service of the Turkish Foreign Ministry. During his diplomatic career, he worked among other things, 1964-1970, 1975-1977 and 1982-1985, as well as legal counsel from 1985 to 1989 as a senior legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry. From 1970 to 1975, from 1980 to 1982 he was Legal Adviser to the Permanent Mission of Turkey to the United Nations in New York, 1977-1979 Legal Adviser to the Turkish Embassy in The Hague. As Turkish ambassador, he served from 1989 to 1993 in Cuba, from 1993 to 1995 in Singapore and in the years 1998/1999 in Indonesia.

In addition, he represented his native country as a delegate or head of delegation at various international institutions and conferences and bilateral negotiations, among other things, at the second session of the conference at which the Vienna Convention was negotiated on the Law of Treaties, several times at meetings of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in 1971 at the meeting of the UN Commission on Human Rights as well as in negotiations with Greece on the delimitation of the continental shelf and the airspace in the area of the Aegean Sea. From 1992 to 1997 he was a member of the International Law Commission of the United Nations. He has worked since 1999 as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda ( ICTY) and is a member since 2001, the Appeals Chamber of the Court, which also simultaneously serves as the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Mehmet Güney is married and father of three children.