Turkey sacks ambassador in north for second time in six months

Turkey sacked its ambassador in the north for the second time in the space of six months shortly before midnight on Friday, with the country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan formally announcing the appointment of a new ambassador.

Erdogan announced that Yasin Ekrem Serim, who only formally undertook the role in August, had been “recalled” to Ankara, and that Ali Murat Basceri, who had previously served as Turkey’s ambassador in the