Fatma Serpil Alpman

Fatma Serpil Uludoğan was born in Erzurum, Turkey on June 30, 1950. After completing her high school education at Üsküdar American Academy in Istanbul, she studied at Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University graduating in 1972.^[2]

She was married to Turkish diplomat Öncer Alpman (1947-2002), who died end May 2002 at the age of 55 in brussels, Belgium, where he was the general consul.^[3] She has two children from this marriage.^[2]

After serving in various positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she became general consul in 1999 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where she was until 2001.^[2][3] In October 2004, she was appointed Ambassador of Turkey to Kyrgyzstan succeeding Muzaffer Eröktem.^[4] She became so the first ever female ambassador of Turkey to a country in Central Asia.^[5] She served in Bishkek until September 2009.^[6][7] After returning home, she served as the Undersecretary of the Ministry and Chief Advisor for Foreign Policy of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. In 2012, she was appointed Representative of the Ministry in İzmir serving until 2014.^[2][5]

Currently, she is retired.^[2]