Namık Tan
Turkish diplomat (born 1956)
Namık Tan (born 1956 in Mardin, Turkey) is a Turkish politician and former diplomat. He joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and was its spokesman for 2004 to 2007, ambassador to Israel from 2007 to 2009 and ambassador to the United States from 2010 to March 2014. He has sat at the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for Istanbul (II) since 2023. Elected on the Republican People's Party (CHP) list, he served as the party's deputy chairman for foreign affairs from April 2025. In July 2026 he left the CHP with Özgür Özel and about ninety other deputies to found Yeni Parti.
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