{"id":149383,"date":"2025-11-14T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=149383"},"modified":"2025-11-14T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T10:49:09","slug":"president-erhurman-meets-with-numan-kurtulmus-speaker-of-the-grand-national-assembly-of-the-republic-of-turkiye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/president-erhurman-meets-with-numan-kurtulmus-speaker-of-the-grand-national-assembly-of-the-republic-of-turkiye\/","title":{"rendered":"President Erh\u00fcrman meets with Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>President Tufan Erh\u00fcrman, on his first official overseas visit, on Thursday met with Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, Speaker of Grand National Assembly of the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye (TBMM), as part of his official visit to Ankara.<\/div>\n<div>At the meeting, which was held at the TBMM, President Erh\u00fcrman extended his sincere condolences to the Turkish nation over the recent loss of 20 martyrs, offering his heartfelt sympathies and strength to their bereaved families.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing his pride at being received by Speaker Kurtulmu\u015f and his delegation at the TBMM, President Erh\u00fcrman described the relationship between the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye as \u201ca special relationship unlike that of any other two states\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Drawing attention to the strong bonds between the TBMM and the TRNC Parliamentary Assembly, as well as the cooperation between their respective friendship groups, President Erh\u00fcrman underscored the vital role of the TBMM in communicating the Turkish Cypriot people\u2019s just cause and struggle for existence to the international community.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of T\u00fcrkiye, Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, also expressed his great pleasure in hosting President Erh\u00fcrman at the Turkish Grand National Assembly, and emphasised the importance of officials of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye paying their first official visits to one another following elections.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Congratulating President Erh\u00fcrman on his election and offering his best wishes for success in office, Speaker Kurtulmu\u015f emphasised the \u201cexceptional nature of the relations between the two States\u201d, stressing how they have steadily matured and strengthened over time.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Tufan Erh\u00fcrman, on his first official overseas visit, on Thursday met with Numan Kurtulmu\u015f, Speaker<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":149364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149383","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\/149383","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=149383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149384,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149383\/revisions\/149384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}