Turkey’s Sakarya mayor ‘lied about getting degree in Cyprus’

Yusuf Alemdar, the mayor of Turkey’s Sakarya municipality, which is located on the country’s Black Sea coast, lied about having obtained a degree in Cyprus, according to reports on Monday.

The Sakarya municipality’s website states that Alemdar graduated with a degree in business administration from Famagusta’s Eastern Mediterranean University, but veteran journalist Levent Ozadam on Monday reported that this is not the case.

He said he had been alerted to the issue by an academic at the university...