Timur Goksel, a former UN diplomat who won accolades for his peace-making role at the height of tensions between Israel and Hezbollah in the 1990s, and was founding editor of Al-Monitor’s Turkey Pulse, died early Wednesday. He was 77.
Goksel, a Turkish national, succumbed to COVID-19 in a hospital in his beloved Beirut, where he had lived since his retirement from the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in 2003. He is survived by his wife, Nilgun, daughter, Zeynep, and son, Emir.