President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan met Thursday with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Tufan Erhurman at the Presidential Dolmabah\u00e7e Office in Istanbul, an official statement said. Erdo\u011fan stressed that military elements deployed to Cyprus by some European countries under the pretext of the Iran war should not become permanent. He reaffirmed T\u00fcrkiye\u2019s readiness to take all necessary steps to defend the TRNC and said Ankara will never allow the rights and interests of Turkish Cypriots to be violated.<\/p>\n
Bilateral and Regional Issues<\/p>\n
Erdo\u011fan and Erhurman discussed bilateral ties and regional issues. The Turkish president was accompanied by National Intelligence Organisation head \u0130brahim Kal\u0131n, foreign policy and security adviser Akif \u00c7a\u011fatay K\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, Communications Director Burhanettin Duran, and chief adviser Zafer \u00c7ubuk\u00e7u. The meeting underscores Ankara\u2019s commitment to the security and sovereignty of the TRNC amid heightened regional tensions following the US\u2011Israeli war on Iran.<\/p>\n
Strategic Context<\/p>\n
The meeting comes as European countries have moved military assets to Cyprus, citing the conflict in the Middle East. Erdo\u011fan\u2019s warning reflects Ankara\u2019s concern that such deployments could become a permanent fixture, altering the strategic balance on the island. T\u00fcrkiye has consistently supported the TRNC\u2019s sovereign rights and has called for dialogue and de\u2011escalation in the region, while maintaining its readiness to defend Turkish Cypriots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan met Thursday with Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus President Tufan Erhurman at the Presidential…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16467],"tags":[2698,7241,7098,22556,16245,22555,5596],"class_list":{"0":"post-33684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-recep-tayyip-erdogan","8":"tag-cyprus","9":"tag-erdogan","10":"tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","11":"tag-trnc","12":"tag-troops","13":"tag-tufan-erhurman","14":"tag-turkiye"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116434340540774785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}