Metin Feyzio\u011flu (born July 7, 1969, in Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of criminal law, diplomat, and former president of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. He served as president of the Union from 2013 to 2021 and is the grandson of prominent Turkish politician Turhan Feyzio\u011flu. On July 18, 2012, he was elected to the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Party Assembly through the Science, Administration, and Culture Platform quota. Feyzio\u011flu resigned from this position in 2019. On October 30, 2022, he was appointed as Turkey’s Ambassador to Nicosia by President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan, and on November 24, 2024, he was appointed as the Ambassador of Turkey to Prague, succeeding Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f.<\/p>\n
Metin Feyzio\u011flu was born on July 7, 1969, in Istanbul’s K\u0131z\u0131ltoprak neighborhood to Saide (Feyzio\u011flu) Bu\u00e7uko\u011flu and Mehmet Bu\u00e7uko\u011flu. Sadly, his mother passed away two hours after his birth, and he was adopted and raised by his maternal grandparents, Leyla and Turhan Feyzio\u011flu, in Ankara.<\/p>\n
Feyzio\u011flu graduated from TED Ankara College in 1986 and went on to study law at Ankara University, graduating in 1990. He was admitted to the Ankara Bar Association in 1991. After completing his Master\u2019s degree in Public Law in 1992, he earned his PhD in 1995. In 1996, he joined the Faculty of Law at Ankara University as an assistant professor in criminal law. He earned the title of associate professor in 2002 and became a full professor in 2005. Additionally, Feyzio\u011flu completed a legal English certificate program at Columbia University, further enhancing his international credentials.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Feyzio\u011flu was appointed Dean of the Ankara University Faculty of Law, a role he held for one year. His tenure as president of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations was marked by efforts to uphold judicial independence and promote legal reforms.<\/p>\n
Following a successful tenure as Turkey\u2019s Ambassador to Nicosia, Metin Feyzio\u011flu was appointed as the Turkish Ambassador to Prague on November 24, 2024, succeeding Egemen Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f<\/strong>. Ba\u011f\u0131\u015f, who had a distinguished and fruitful term as Ambassador to the Czech Republic, passed the torch with high praise for Feyzio\u011flu, offering him best wishes and success in his new diplomatic mission.<\/p>\n Feyzio\u011flu\u2019s extensive legal background and experience in international diplomacy position him well to continue fostering strong relations between Turkey and the Czech Republic, further building on the achievements of his predecessor.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Metin Feyzio\u011flu (born July 7, 1969, in Istanbul) is a Turkish professor of criminal law, diplomat, and former president of the Union of Turkish Bar Associations. He served as president of the Union from 2013 to 2021 and is the grandson of prominent Turkish politician Turhan Feyzio\u011flu. On July 18, 2012, he was elected to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praguehints.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}