10 April 2025 - Common Struggle – Common Future
On Tuesday 8 April, the streets of Nicosia were filled with over 13,000 Turkish Cypriots, in one of the largest mobilisations in recent decades. It was not just a protest. It was a strong, collective voice in favor of secularism, democracy and dignity.
The size of this demonstration was not accidental. The result of a deep need for self-determination, for resistance to degradation, and for reunification. Can we grasp what 13,000 people on the streets mean? Can we feel what it means to live daily in fear of cultural extinction?
The message was deafening.
The rejection of Ankara’s authoritarian policies and its interventions in the education, religion and daily life of Turkish Cypriots. The defense of a secular, democratic, progressive identity. An identity that is not negotiable.
Teachers, trade unionists, mothers, workers — people of action and resistance. People who are not afraid to say “no” to imposition and “yes” to coexistence.
The message is clear: Cyprus is secular – and will remain secular.
This struggle is not only for Turkish Cypriots.
It is our common struggle. It is the struggle for a reunited, free, democratic Cyprus — for a Cyprus that belongs to its people, not to its guarantors.
That is why we were there, Volt, as a bicommunal political party.
That is why we say without hesitation: this fight is our fight.
Let us not repeat the mistakes of the past. Let us move forward together.