North ‘govt’s’ pick for ‘parliament speaker’ resigns

Ziya Ozturkler, the man the north’s ruling coalition has claimed for a month was the north’s ‘parliament speaker’, on Monday announced that he had resigned from the post.

He announced his resignation in a post on social media, writing that he had left the role to “pave the way for budget discussions” to take place in ‘parliament’, after they were delayed by a week as arguments over his legitimacy blocked