Education
Kemal Kavur was educated at the Lycee Galatasay, where he also excelled as a football player, and studied at Faculty Political Science (Mulkiye) in Ankara.
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Career
He did his post-graduate degree at University of Berlin, specialisizing in public international law. He then joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kemal Ataturk"s newly formed Turkish Republic, quickly rising within it, serving as Chargé d"affaires at the Berlin embassy to Adolf Hitler"s Germany. Kavur then served as ambassador in Sofia, Bulgaria, followed by five years in Moscow—a challenging ambassadorial posting, under Nikita Khrushchev at the height of the Cold War (1955-1960).
Kavur then became ambassador to Japan (1960-1962), and to the United Kingdom (1962-1964).
He finally retired after serving as ambassador (1964-1969) in Bern, Switzerland. Kemal Kavur was an "old school" diplomat, believing totally in savoir-faire and building bridges, while his guiding force was the love of his country and freedom and democracy.
In this respect, Kavur"s work as a diplomat was important to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance, serving in Bulgaria and Soviet Union.
