{"id":91005,"date":"2025-10-19T17:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91005\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T17:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:49:08","slug":"turkish-nationalist-leader-says-trnc-should-unite-with-turkiye-following-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/91005\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkish nationalist leader says TRNC should unite with T\u00fcrkiye following elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationalist party leader Bahceli calls on PKK ringleader Ocalan to disarm and address Turkish Parliament, accessed on Oct. 19, 2025. (Photo via X)<\/p>\n<p>\nOctober 19, 2025 08:36 PM GMT+03:00\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-share.svg\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A presidential election in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has triggered an unprecedented call for unification with T\u00fcrkiye, as a prominent Turkish nationalist leader challenged the legitimacy of the vote and urged the territory&#8217;s parliament to pursue annexation rather than accept the results.<\/p>\n<p>Tufan Erhurman of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP) won the presidential race according to unofficial results announced Saturday, but the outcome immediately drew sharp criticism from Devlet Bahceli, leader of T\u00fcrkiye&#8217;s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"newspicture\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/853;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/turkish-nationalist-leader-says-trnc-should-unite-with-turkiye-following-elections-3208660_202510192.jpeg\" alt=\"Newly elected president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Tufan Erhurman speaking to press on Oct. 19, 2025. (AA photo)\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\" data-width=\"1280\" data-height=\"853\" meta-alt=\"Newly elected president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus speaking to press on Oct. 19, 2025. (AA photo)\"\/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-fotobuyut.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nNewly elected president of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Tufan Erhurman speaking to press on Oct. 19, 2025. (AA photo)\n<\/p>\n<p>Turkish nationalist leader questions election legitimacy over turnout<\/p>\n<p>Bahceli dismissed the election as unrepresentative, pointing to what he described as exceptionally low voter participation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The results of the election held in the TRNC were achieved with very low turnout. The fate of Turkish Cypriots cannot be represented with this level of participation,&#8221; Bahceli said in a statement following completion of the vote count.<\/p>\n<p>The MHP leader issued a sweeping call for Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus&#8217;s parliament to convene urgently and reject both the election outcome and any movement toward a federal solution on the divided island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even though the election result has been announced by the election board, the TRNC Parliament must convene immediately, declare that the election results and a return to federation are unacceptable, and make a decision to join the Republic of T\u00fcrkiye,&#8221; Bahceli stated.<\/p>\n<p>More to Read<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/region\/opposition-leader-tufan-erhurman-poised-to-win-trnc-presidency-3208659\" title=\"Opposition leader Tufan Erhurman poised to win TRNC presidency\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/opposition-leader-tufan-erhurman-poised-to-win-trnc-presidency-3208659_20251019194945.jpg\" class=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Opposition leader Tufan Erhurman poised to win TRNC presidency\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bahceli&#8217;s call for Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus to formally join T\u00fcrkiye represents a dramatic departure from the long-standing international framework seeking a federal solution to reunify the Mediterranean island, which has been divided since 1974.<\/p>\n<p>The statement comes as Erhurman, whose party has historically supported renewed negotiations for a federal settlement, prepares to assume the presidency of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, a state recognized only by T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkiyetoday.com\/s\/i\/i-share.svg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>October 19, 2025 08:36 PM GMT+03:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nationalist party leader Bahceli calls on PKK ringleader Ocalan to disarm and address Turkish Parliament, accessed on Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-91005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}