Erkut Sahali elected north opposition party CTP’s secretary-general

Erkut Sahali was on Tuesday night elected as secretary-general of the north’s largest opposition party the CTP, unseating Asim Akansoy.

At the first meeting of the party’s new congress following its party conference on April 6, Sahali and Sila Usar Incirli both challenged Akansoy for the role, with Sahali winning out.

Sahali is 51 years old and has served in three different ‘ministerial’ posts in the north – twice as ‘agriculture minister’ and once as ‘public works minister’.