A. Emin Önen has been serving as the Ambassador of Turkey to the People’s Republic of China since December 2017. He is a former chief adviser to the President of the Republic of Turkey and a former member of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. During his terms as a parliamentarian, he also served as the chairman of Turkey-China Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group, vice-president of the Asian Parliamentary Assembly and vice-president of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.