Originally Posted by SK AAR

in general you can’t, but once I learned from a fellow traveller on the TK shuttle bus from the hotel to the airport and that he was allowed a TK transit hotel despite that he didn’t select the morning flight to his European destination but the early afternoon flight to get a few hours more of sleep (as I understood it also the shortest possible connection was 9+ hours).

So you may be lucky and the hotel desk will assign you a hotel room despite not being on the shortest possible connection but there is also a risk that it will be denied. Give it a try?