Turkish President Abdulah Gul has been proposed as a candidate for the post of U.N. Secretary General in 2016.

The idea has been put forward by Ambassador Mehmet Kalyoncu, advisor to the Organization of the Islamic Conference’s ambassador to the United Nations, who posted an article in the Foreign Policy magazine.

According to the author, “mobilizing the entire country for a commonly-appealing specific goal, such as the election of President Gul as U.N. secretary-general in 2016, will simultaneously institutionalize Turkish foreign policy while also moderating it.”

“Gul would make an excellent U.N. secretary-general, as he served as foreign minister, prime minister and president of a country,” writes the author.