Hakan Fidan (born in 1968, Ankara), Turkish soldier, bureaucrat and academic. He served as the head of the National Intelligence Organization between 2010-2023. In 2023, he took part in the cabinet of the 67th Turkish Government and became the foreign minister and he still continues this duty.
Hakan Fidan was born in Ankara in 1968. Hakan Fidan worked as a non-commissioned officer in the Turkish Armed Forces from 1986 to 2001. Meanwhile, he studied at KK Combat School and KK Language School.
He left the military voluntarily and received a bachelor's degree in management and political science from the University of Maryland University College of the University of Maryland in the USA. He completed his master's degree at Bilkent University with his thesis titled "The Role of Intelligence in Foreign Policy" and his doctorate in 2006 with his thesis titled "Diplomacy in the Information Age: The Use of Information Technologies in Verifying Treaties" at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, the United Nations Institute for Disarmament in Geneva and London. He continued his academic studies at Verification Technologies Research Center in . He worked as an academician at Hacettepe and Bilkent Universities.
Fidan, who also worked at the NATO Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters in Germany, served as a senior political and economic adviser at the Australian Embassy in Ankara for two years, starting from 2001. In 2003, he was appointed as the head of the Prime Ministry Turkish Cooperation and Development Administration (TIKA).
Fidan, who was appointed as the Deputy Undersecretary of the Prime Ministry on November 14, 2007, was appointed as a member of the Board of the International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2008. He became a member of the board of trustees of International Ahmet Yesevi University on March 8, 2008[4] and resigned from this position in February 2011.
(From left) Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Hulusi Akar, Hakan Fidan and İbrahim Kalın during the meeting with the Russian delegation. (January 2020) He was appointed as the Deputy Undersecretary of the National Intelligence Organization on April 15, 2010. After the expiration of Emre Taner's term, he was appointed as the MIT Undersecretary on 27 May 2010. As he was 42 years old when he was appointed, he became the youngest MİT undersecretary in the history of the Republic of Turkey. While Sapling was ambassador; After Sönmez Köksal, who was appointed as the MIT undersecretary, he became the second person to be appointed as the head of the organization from outside.
On February 7, 2012, he was summoned to testify as a suspect in the KCK operation by the special authorized Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor Sadrettin Sarıkaya. Thereupon, the government made amendments to Article 26 of the Intelligence Services and National Intelligence Organization Law; Investigating the rights of MİT members or persons appointed by the prime minister to perform a special task due to the crimes alleged to have been committed during the performance of the duty was subject to the permission of the prime minister.
He became the new foreign minister by taking part in the new cabinet of the 3th Government of Turkey, which was established under the presidency of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 2023 June 67. After İsmet İnönü, who served as the foreign minister between 1922 and 1924, he became the first military-origin foreign minister to take this post 101 years later.
He is married to Nuran Fidan and has 3 children.