Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired his chief adviser Oktay Sarel after a high-profile diplomatic scandal with Azerbaijan. The former adviser spoke out harshly on social media, calling the exclusion of hijab-wearing girls from classes an "ideological imposition" and calling on Baku to lift the restrictions. This is how the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev won this diplomatic dispute.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has fired his chief adviser Oktay Sarel after a high-profile diplomatic scandal with Azerbaijan. The former adviser spoke out harshly on social media, calling the exclusion of hijab-wearing girls from classes an "ideological imposition" and calling on Baku to lift the restrictions. This is how the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev won this diplomatic dispute.