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GRF Board Member Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan Awarded with the French “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur"

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GRF Board Member Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan Awarded with the French “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur"

25.03.2018
Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan, was awarded, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves le Drian, the title of “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur”.

On March 25, 2018, in a ceremony held at the French Embassy in Kiev, the Chief Monitor to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE) Special Mission to Ukraine and GRF Board Member, Ambassador Ertuğrul Apakan, was awarded, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves le Drian, the title of “Officier dans l’Ordre National de la Légion d’Honneur”.

The French “Légion d’Honneur” is an order of distinction established by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802.

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