{"id":147112,"date":"2025-07-07T17:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=147112"},"modified":"2025-07-07T17:10:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T14:10:29","slug":"president-tatar-meets-with-eco-secretary-general-ambassador-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-tatar-meets-with-eco-secretary-general-ambassador-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tatar meets with ECO Secretary-General Ambassador Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">President Ersin Tatar met with Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Secretary-General Ambassador Asad Majeed, as part of the 17<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Leaders\u2019 ECO Summit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to information released by the Presidential Complex, President Tatar expressed his gratitude to Secretary General Khan for his sincere interest in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and emphasized that the TRNC is &#8220;contributing effectively to the ECO as an observer member&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlighting the importance of the TRNC\u2019s participation in all ECO meetings in order to contribute more actively to the work of the organization, President Tatar stated that the TRNC has significant economic expertise.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the meeting, President Tatar also provided Secretary General Khan with a historical perspective on the Cyprus issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For his part, Secretary General Khan conveyed his pleasure at the TRNC\u2019s involvement in ECO activities, and stated that the TRNC can offer substantial contributions to ECO member states, particularly in the fields of tourism and higher education.\u00a0 \u00a0 He also emphasized that thousands of students from ECO member countries are currently studying in the TRNC, and extended his thanks for the opportunities provided as well as the hospitality of the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also participating in the meeting were TRNC Representative to Baku, Ambassador Ufuk Turganer; Special Advisor to the President on International Relations and Diplomacy, Prof. Dr. H\u00fcseyin I\u015f\u0131ksal; Special Advisor to the President, G\u00f6khan G\u00fcler; and Foreign Press Officer of the President, Kerem Haser.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ersin Tatar met with Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Secretary-General Ambassador Asad Majeed, as part of<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":147089,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147113,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147112\/revisions\/147113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}