Oktay Ekşi

Osman Oktay Ekşi (born 7 December 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and politician. He was elected as a member of Parliament for the Republican People's Party in the 2011 general election. He is the oldest MP of the 24th parliamentary term.^[1]

Ekşi was the chief columnist of the daily newspaper Hürriyet. In 2010, Ekşi resigned from Hürriyet after he insulted the prime minister and state ministers in one of his columns. Ekşi referred to members of the government as having a “mindset willing to sell one’s own mother” — the phrase in Turkish is highly offensive and implies one who is willing to sell one’s own mother as a prostitute — when criticizing Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız and Environment Minister Veysel Eroğlu over a government project to build a hydroelectric complex in Rize.

References

1. ^ Ali Aslan Kılıç (May 1, 2011). "Youngest and oldest candidates in elections differ in opinions". Istanbul: Today's Zaman. http://www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action;jsessionid=A9B4744F588802B9D78A8AD92A3EFE09?newsId=242449. Retrieved June 27, 2011.