The newly-elected president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), Tufan Erhürman, will visit Türkiye this Thursday, marking his first trip abroad since taking office last month, Türkiye’s communications chief Burhanettin Duran announced on Monday.
"President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus Tufan Erhürman will make his first official overseas visit to our country on Nov. 13, 2025, at the invitation of our President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan," Duran said on Turkish social media platform NSosyal on Monday.
He added that during his meetings in Türkiye, recent developments on the Cyprus issue will be evaluated and Türkiye-TRNC relations discussed in all aspects.
Erhürman was elected on Oct. 19.
The island has been mired in a decades-long dispute between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, despite a series of diplomatic efforts by the U.N. to achieve a comprehensive settlement.
Ethnic attacks starting in the early 1960s forced Turkish Cypriots to withdraw into enclaves for their safety. In 1974, a Greek Cypriot coup aimed at Greece's annexation led to Türkiye’s military intervention as a guarantor power to protect Turkish Cypriots from persecution and violence.
As a result, the TRNC was founded in 1983. The country is fully recognized only by Türkiye, which does not recognize the Greek Cypriot administration in the south.
The island has seen an on-and-off peace process in recent years, but negotiations have been stalled since 2017. Erhürman advocates resumption of the formal negotiations with the Greek Cypriot side. Tatar repeatedly met with Greek Cypriot leaders in informal talks brokered by the U.N., but those negotiations did not yield any concrete results for the final status of Cyprus.
