Man who branded opposition ‘MP’ a ‘terrorist’ handed top civil service job in north

A man who last year branded one of the north’s opposition ‘MPs’ a “terrorist” was on Thursday handed one of the north’s highest ranking civil service jobs, being announced as the new private secretary of ‘labour minister’ Oguzhan Hasipoglu.

Thirty-two-year-old bar proprietor Dervis Bayraktar made the comment during a speech he made in November last year during a protest held in support of the north’s ruling coalition amidst a weeks-long ‘parliamentary’ deadlock after the coalition and...