Mehmet Paçacı

Ambassador Mehmet Paçacı is a Turkish diplomat and university professor. He served as Ambassador of Turkey to the Holy See from 2014 to 2019. Previously he acted as Director General of Foreign Relations in the Presidency of Religious Affairs in Ankara and Attaché of the Presidency of Religious Affairs at the Turkish Embassy in Washington DC.

He has a PhD degree from the Faculty of Theology of Ankara University where he was a member of the academic staff between 1983 and 2008. He has been a visiting scholar and lecturer at various universities, including Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, the Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington D.C., Manchester University, the King Saud University in Riyadh, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Bamberg University and Kuala Lumpur International Islamic University. He has specifically worked on hermeneutical questions of interpreting the Muslim Holy Scripture, the Qur’an, in modern times.