Turkey goes on taking steps for “an insider” to assume the post of Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe (OSCE),

Turkey has proposed a diplomat Ersin Ercin’s candidacy for the post, 1news.az reports referring to Turkish Hurriyet daily.

According to the information at the daily’s disposal, Ercin has already secured support from 25 states out of 56-member security organization for replacing the outgoing Secretary-General, Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut of France.

As NEWS.am reported previously, after joining the Turkish Foreign Ministry in 1982, Ercin served in different departments at the headquarters in Ankara, including the departments of economic relations; international security, military relations and disarmament; maritime and aviation; Balkans; and America. In addition to missions in Khartoum and Damascus, he served at Turkey’s permanent representative offices to international organizations such as the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the United Nations. From 2001 to 2004, he was deputy permanent representative at the OSCE, Vienna, and from 2004 to 2006, he was deputy permanent representative to the UN in New York,” the daily reads.

Ercin most recently served as deputy director general for the Americas at the headquarters before being posted to Brasilia as ambassador in May 2009.

President of Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is Turkish diplomat Mevlut Cavusoglu. Another Turkish politician Huseyin Dirioz is NATO Deputy Secretary General.