Khaled al-Attiya, who has been trying to mediate an end to the political turmoil in Egypt, returned on Wednesday after several days in Cairo and complained he had not been able to meet all the parties he had been promised to see.
With little choice, he resigned, ending one period of turmoil at a broadcaster that regularly battles to be independent of ministers.
Related: Jim Murphy's resignation throws Scottish Labour into turmoil The 33-year-old said: "The geographical spread of support I have – with MSPs from north and south, east and west – as well as the backing of MSPs from different parts of our movement shows I can bring our party together.
With the background of the current turmoil in the Middle East, the news that the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has, at the UN general assembly, declared the US-led peace process dead (Report, 27 September), the prospects of a two-state solution look more remote than ever.
Outside the world of the club, Jimmy's life is in turmoil.
Turmoil erupted in Ukip after Patrick O'Flynn, the party's campaign director, gave an interview saying Farage had been led astray by an inner circle of advisers, which had made him become "snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive".
The Communist party was in turmoil, and in the ensuing months there were several changes of party and government leaders.
An estimated €20bn is believed to have fled local lenders since December, when Athens was plunged into political turmoil with parliament's failure to elect a new head of state automatically triggering snap polls.
Speaking in Washington, Osborne said that the turmoil in the world's financial markets meant there was now "a far greater sense of urgency" and mounting pressure on Europe from the G20 group of developed and developing nations.
Yet Ukip is itself in turmoil amid its advances.
Somalia, another nation in turmoil, is the third biggest country of provenance.
