Duties of the Department of Protocol are as follows: 

a) To consider the requests for cooperation, except for agreements, made by foreign countries in coordination with related units,
b) To contribute to the country files to be prepared by Private Bureau with regard to overseas visits to be paid by the Minister and Senior Executive and reception of foreign delegations,
c) To submit meeting minutes prepared subsequent to the Ministry’s overseas visits to the Ministries, institutions or organizations concerned,
d) To establish relations with missions of foreign countries and representative offices of international organizations resident in our country with a view to developing cooperation regarding the issues falling within the Ministry’s field of activity,
e) To share reports and informative notes on meetings of the Ministry’s units within the scope of foreign relations with the units and departments concerned, to ensure their referral to the Department of Training and Publications for storage in the Documentation Centre and to transmit them to the Ministries, institutions and organizations concerned, when necessary,
f) To plan travels of the Minister and Senior Executive for overseas visits and to make the necessary technical and logistic arrangements in respect thereof,
g) To take steps with the institutions concerned for the visits of foreign delegations to be paid to the Minister, Senior Executive and General Directorate with a view to ensuring security measures, transport services, accommodation, meals, social activity and other services,
h) To submit appointment requests, invitations and letters addressing the Minister and Senior Executive to the Office of General Directorate; to prepare invitations and letters to be sent by the Minister and Senior Executive and to ensure their transmittal,
i) To make the necessary technical and logistic arrangements as regards events such as international meetings, seminars, conferences to be held in our country under the responsibility of the Ministry,
j) To receive ministerial approval for the Ministry’s temporarily assigned personnel for foreign mission within the framework of the Ministry’s Directive on Signature Authorization and Delegation of Authority and to carry out other procedures,
k) To follow up end-of-mission reports of personnel temporarily assigned abroad, to share them with the units and Departments concerned and to refer them to the Department of Training and Publications for storage in the Documentation Centre,
l) To perform other tasks assigned by the General Directorate.