The north’s ‘parliament speaker’ Ziya Ozturkler was on Thursday accused in court of gifting ‘TRNC’ citizenship to people he had coerced into handing out degree certificates under false pretences during his time as ‘interior minister’. Gunduz’s statement read that “another thing I remember is that one day, the then interior minister Ziya Ozturkler called me and said ‘give Fatma Unal her diploma and have her graduate’”. “Afterwards, he said on the phone that the citizenship application of the vice rector [of the KSTU] Serdal Isiktas was in front of him for his signature. “Another thing I remember is that after Fatma Unal’s graduation, Serdal Isiktas’ citizenship application process and that of his wife were completed. Serious allegations were also made against Fatma Unal on Thursday, with police sergeant Bilger Koral also appearing as a witness.