Turkish order of precedence

The Turkish order of precedence, the following is the list of Turkish order of precedence approved by the President of Turkey and administered by the Directorate of Protocols of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.[1]

This is a hierarchy of officials in the Turkish Republic used to direct protocol for domestic ceremonies, hence it does not involve any foreign dignitaries. It also does not contain the President of Turkey, since he is the head of the state and assumed to be at the top of the list naturally.

Turkish order of precedence list

  1. Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
  2. Vice President of Turkey
  3. President of the Constitutional Court
  4. Former presidents
  5. First President of the Court of Cassation
  6. President of the Council of State
  7. Ministers of the Government (in alphabetical order of ministry names)
  8. Chief of the Turkish General Staff
  9. Commanders of the Turkish Armed Forces
  10. Generals/Admirals
  11. President of the Council of Higher Education
  12. Leader of the Main Opposition Party
  13. Deputy Speaker of the Grand National Assembly
  14. Leaders of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
  15. Clerk members and administrative members of the Parliament
  16. Leaders of the political parties that are represented in the Parliament
  17. Chairperson and Deputy Chairman's of the political party groups in the Parliament
  18. Deputy Chairpersons of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
  19. General Secretaries of the political parties that have groups in the Parliament
  20. Members of the Parliament
  21. President of the Court of Accounts
  22. Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
  23. President of the Turkish Bars Association
  24. Chief Prosecutor of the Council of State
  25. Deputy Presidents of the Constitutional Court
  26. President of the Court of Jurisdictional Disputes
  27. Justices of the Constitutional Court
  28. Deputy First Presidents of the Court of Cassation
  29. Deputy President of the Council of State
  30. Deputy President of the Council of Judges and Prosecutors
  31. Deputy Chief Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation
  32. President of the Supreme Electoral Council
  33. President of the High Council of Arbitrators
  34. General secretary of the National Security Council
  35. President of the National Intelligence Organization
  36. President of the State Supervisory Council
  37. President of Strategy and Budget
  38. President of the Defense Industries
  39. President of the Directorate of Communications
  40. President of the Directorate of Religious Affairs
  41. President of the Directorate of State Archives
  42. President of the Directorate of National Palaces
  43. President of the Directorate of Presidential Administrative Affairs
  44. General Secretary of the Parliament
  45. Presidents of the Office of the Presidency
  46. Deputy ministers
  47. Chief Auditor of the Ombudsman Institution
  48. Governor of Ankara
  49. Rectors of universities in Ankara
  50. Commander of the Garrison of Ankara
  51. Mayor of Ankara Metropolitan Municipality
  52. Deputy Presidents of the Policy Boards under the Presidency
  53. Members of the Council of Higher Education
  54. Lieutenant generals/Vice admirals
  55. President of the Atatürk High Institution of Culture, Language and History
  56. President of the Radio and Television Supreme Council
  57. President of the Turkish Academy of Sciences
  58. Governor of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
  59. President of the Competition Authority
  60. President of the Privatization Administration
  61. Chairperson of the Capital Markets Board
  62. Deputy General Secretaries of the Parliament
  63. Major generals/Rear admirals
  64. Court of Cassation of Department Heads and members
  65. Council of State of Department Heads and members
  66. Court of Accounts of Department Heads and members
  67. President of the Turkey Energy, Nuclear and Mining Research Institute
  68. President of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey
  69. Deputy Rectors of Universities in Ankara
  70. Members of the Supreme Electoral Council
  71. Members of the State Supervisory Council
  72. Auditors of the Ombudsman Institution
  73. Brigadier generals/Commodores
  74. General secretary of the Council of Higher Education
  75. President of the Turkish Statistical Institute
  76. General manager of the Anadolu Agency
  77. General manager of the Turkish Radio Television Corporation
  78. General manager of the Meteorology
  79. Director General of Foundations
  80. General Director of Land Deeds and Cadastral
  81. General Managers of the Ministry
  82. Deans and Deputy Deans of the faculties of the universities in Ankara
  83. Heads of Professional Organizations in the nature of public institutions in Ankara
  84. Heads of Civil and Military Associations

See also

References

  1. Başkent Protokolü Öndegelim Listesi (in Turkish), Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Dışişleri Bakanlığı, 2008-05-08, archived from the original on 2009-02-07, retrieved 2009-07-30
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