H.E. M. Babur Hızlan, Ambassador Biographical Data

Ambassador M. Babur Hızlan was born in 1961 in İstanbul. He is married, with two daughters.

Graduated from Boğazici University Political Science Department, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1984. Until now, Ambassador Hızlan has served in the Consulate General in Houston, the Embassy in Lagos, the Permanent Mission to the UN in New York, the Consulate General in Bourgas, the Embassy in Sofia and the Consulate General in Munich in different ranks. In 2006, he took over the administration of the Deputy Directorate General of South Asia where he presided over until he became the Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Ambassador Hızlan arrived in İslamabad on 1 August 2009 to assume his duties and started his tenure as the Ambassador on 18 August 2009 after he presented the Letter of Credentials to H.E. Asif Ali Zardari, the President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.