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The Turkish Foreign Ministry announced a reshuffle of its ambassadors abroad, and one of those being replaced is Turkey’s ambassador to the United States Serdar Kılıç. His successor was announced to be Murat Mercan, the current Turkish ambassador to Japan.
Kılıç has served in Washington since 2014, where his tenure became defined by his combativeness against critics of Turkey. In a sense, he grew into a fitting frontman for the new, tenser U.S.-Turkish relations that marked the past few years.
“As ambassador, Kılıç was well suited to an era in which Ankara wasn’t trying too hard to make any friends in Washington,” said Nicholas Danforth, an expert on Turkey and senior visiting fellow at the U.S. German Marshall Fund.