Diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Albania were established with the Friendship Agreement signed in 1923.
The first Turkish diplomatic mission was opened as a Consulate in the city of Vlora in 1925, which was replaced by the Embassy in Tirana inaugurated in 1926.
After the Italian occupation of Albania in 1939, the Embassy was closed and a Consulate General was set up. Upon the request of the communist regime which assumed power in 1945, the Consulate General was also closed and the bilateral relations were suspended. In the following period, upon the demand of the Albanian side,
Offices of the Military Attaché and of the Commercial Counselor were set up respectively in 1992 and 2007.
The Embassy’s original building on the Durres Street was handed over to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the 1950s. During the period 1959-2006, the Embassy was located in the
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Tahir Lütfi Togay
1/1/1926-1/1/1929

Ahmet Rüstü Demirel
1/1/1929-1/1/1931

Zeki Hakkı Karabuda
1/1/1931-1/1/1932

Basri Raşid Danişmend
1/1/1932-1/1/1934
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Ruşen Eşref Ünaydın
1/1/1934-12/1/1934
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Yakub Kadri Karaosmanoğlu
12/1/1934-1/1/1936
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Ali Türkgeldi
1/1/1937-1/1/1938
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Hulusi Fuat Togay
1/1/1938-1/1/1939

Muzaffer Kamil Bayur
1/1/1939-1/1/1945
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Hasan Nurelgin
1/1/1959-1/1/1961
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Mustafa Kenanoğlu
1/1/1963-1/1/1967
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Cihat Rüştü Veyselli
1/1/1967-1/1/1968
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Bülent Kestelli
1/1/1968-1/1/1970
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Ercüment Tatarağası
1/1/1971-1/1/1978
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Metin Karaca
1/1/1979-1/1/1983
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Selçuk Toker
1/1/1983-1/1/1985
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Bilal N. Şimşir
1/1/1985-1/1/1987
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Teoman Sürenkök
1/1/1987-1/1/1991
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A. Metin Örnekol
1/1/1991-1/1/1996
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Ahmet Rıfat Ökçün
1/1/1996-1/1/2000
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Murat Oğuz
1/1/2000-1/1/2004

Süphan Erkula
1/1/2004-8/17/2009

Hasan Sevilir Aşan
8/24/2009-10/31/2013

Hidayet Bayraktar
11/14/2013-12/22/2017

Murat Ahmet Yörük
12/29/2017-6/16/2022

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