03 January 2014 - Ambassador Maria Rowena Mendoza Sanchez presented her credentials to His Excellency Abdullah Gül, President of the Republic of Turkey on December 23 at the Çankaya Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey. Ambassador Sanchez is the eighth (8th)
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of the Philippines to the Republic of Turkey.
Joining Ambassador Sanchez was her spouse, Mr. Mario Sanchez. She was also accompanied by First Secretary and Consul General Robert O. Ferrer, Jr., Third Secretary and Vice Consul Ericka Anna T. Abad, Mr. Amado P. Desiderio, Attache, and Mr. Cristopher B. Baguya, Attache .
During the private meeting that followed, President Gul and Ambassador Sanchez discussed the warm and friendly relations between the Philippines and Turkey and agreed on the expansion of cooperation in various fields.
The following day, December 24, Ambassador Sanchez solemnly laid a wreath on the Tomb of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, in Anitkabir, Ankara, accompanied by her family and the officers and staff of the Philippine Embassy.
Ambassador Sanchez also signed the official visitor’s book, while her spouse, Mr. Mario Sanchez, her children and Embassy officers and staff looked on. END