{"id":149073,"date":"2025-10-27T13:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=149073"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T11:02:20","slug":"president-erhurman-the-necessary-initiatives-regarding-the-monument-decision-will-be-taken-without-delay-before-the-european-parliament-and-all-relevant-parties-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-erhurman-the-necessary-initiatives-regarding-the-monument-decision-will-be-taken-without-delay-before-the-european-parliament-and-all-relevant-parties-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Erh\u00fcrman: \u201cProtecting rights and interests of Turkish Cypriot people is my primary duty\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRNC President Tufan Erh\u00fcrman emphasized that safeguarding the rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot people and passing them on to future generations constitutes his foremost responsibility. In this context, Erh\u00fcrman pledged to work tirelessly to ensure that the people take pride in themselves, their country and their institutions.<\/p>\n<p>Erh\u00fcrman underlined that upholding the sovereignty rights of the Turkish Cypriot people on this island is both a requirement of this people\u2019s status on the island and an obligation to the elders who fought for its existence as well as the children to whom this country will be handed over. <em>A Greek Cypriot child on this island has the same rights as a Turkish Cypriot child. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Stating that the Turkish Cypriot people are partners in everything that exists on and around the island, Erh\u00fcrman noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A solution, lasting peace, and stability in this region cannot be achieved by ignoring the Turkish Cypriots on this island or the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye as a guarantor state, nor by violating their rights and authorities.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Describing relations with the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye as \u201cspecial to a degree that cannot be compared to relations between two separate states,\u201d Erh\u00fcrman stated that his duty would be to elevate these relations to an even higher level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRNC President Tufan Erh\u00fcrman emphasized that safeguarding the rights and interests of the Turkish Cypriot people<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":149064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149073","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\/149073","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=149073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149075,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149073\/revisions\/149075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}