Osman Oktay Ekşi (born 7 December 1932) is a Turkish journalist, author and politician.
After working one year (between 1970-1971) at the Turkish Radio and Television Network (TRT) he joined Hurriyet newspaper in 1971 in Ankara as a correspondent at large.
In 2010 Oktay Ekşi resigned from Hürriyet daily when one of his articles was taken as a personal insult by the then Prime Minister.
Ekşi wrote that the plan to build hydroelectric complexes in hundreds of locations in Turkey, including Rize reflected a “mindset of one willing to sell his own mother”.
In 1961, Oktay Ekşi was elected as a member of the press to the Constituent Assembly which drafted and passed the Turkish Constitution of 1961.
In 1983 until 1984, Ekşi served as vice chairman and founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SODEP).