Ahmad Bishti


Ahmad Bishti was the Libyan Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1965–1968. He became an ambassador of Libya to Turkey after he left office in 1968. He graduated as surgeon from University of Cairo in 1959.

Biography

He graduated as a surgeon at Cairo University in 1959 and practiced medicine between 1960 and 1963.
He was appointed Minister of Health at the end of the government of Mohamed Osman El Seid and the governments of Mohiuddin Fikini and Mahmud Al-Montaser, then Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Governments of Hussein Maazak, Abdul Qader Al-Badri and Abdel-Hamid Al-Bakoush.
He became ambassador to Turkey from January 1968 and was ambassador during the 1969 coup in Libya.