{"id":151778,"date":"2026-04-13T14:22:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/?p=151778"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:22:30","slug":"trnc-delegation-in-baku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/trnc-delegation-in-baku\/","title":{"rendered":"TRNC Delegation in Baku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Ziya \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler, Speaker of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Assembly, and his accompanying delegation paid an official visit in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Following the visit, \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler briefed the press on his meetings in Baku.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zt\u00fcrkler emphasized that the TRNC\u2019s position within the Turkic world had been strengthened, particularly noting that its observer status in the Organisation of Turkic States represents a significant turning point.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the TRNC\u2019s observer membership had increased its visibility on the international arena and reinforced efforts to lift the isolation imposed on the Turkish Cypriot people.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that inter-parliamentary contacts have now moved to a more formal level, \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler said that talks previously conducted informally are now being held openly under the TRNC flag and in its name.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the meetings held in Azerbaijan were highly significant in this context, stating that the ability of the TRNC delegation to establish direct contact with the Milli Majlis of the Republic of\u00a0 Azerbaijan stands as one of the most concrete indicators of the new era.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Ziya \u00d6zt\u00fcrkler, Speaker of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Assembly, and his accompanying delegation<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":151752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151778","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\/151778","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=151778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151779,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151778\/revisions\/151779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}