Sıla Usar İncirli has been elected the new president of the Republican Turkish Party (CTP), becoming the first woman to lead the party. The Extraordinary Electoral Congress concluded on Sunday at 20:00, with a total of 2,441 members voting.
Election results
Three candidates contested the leadership: Asım Akansoy, Erkut Şahali and Sıla Usar İncirli. The final results were:
Asım Akansoy: 356 votes (14.58 percent)
Erkut Şahali: 801 votes (32.81 percent)
Sıla Usar İncirli: 1,284 votes (52.6 percent)
Who is Sıla Usar İncirli
According to her public biography on Wikipedia, Sıla Usar İncirli was born in Nicosia in 1972. She is the daughter of Naci Talat Usar and Vesile Usar. She attended Şehit Tuncer Primary School and graduated from Türk Maarif Koleji before beginning her medical studies at Hacettepe University in Ankara in 1990, aged 17.
She completed her medical degree in 1996 and qualified as a neurologist in 2001 after training at İbni Sina Hospital of Ankara University. She returned to Cyprus in 2002 and joined the Dr Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital in Nicosia. In 2015, she was appointed Head of the Neurology Clinic, contributing to research in neurology, epidemiology and pathology, including studies on multiple sclerosis.
Following the 2018 parliamentary election, she was considered for the post of Minister of Health in the Erhürman government but declined the role for professional reasons.
Usar İncirli secured 52 percent of the vote at the CTP congress on 30 November 2025, leading to her election as party president.