Members of the Kurdish community in Cyprus marched through central Nicosia on Thursday, as parliament prepared to vote on a resolution concerning the situation in Syria’s Kurdish-held Rojava region. “What is happening in Rojava is an attack on coexistence, democracy and the rights of women and minorities,” he told the crowd. The protest coincided with a scheduled vote in the House of representatives on a resolution addressing the situation of the Kurds in Rojava, as fighting and instability continue to threaten the region. According to the letter, attacks by regime-affiliated groups escalated in early 2026, with massacres committed in the Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyeh areas of historic Aleppo. It urges Cypriot leaders to take responsibility for ending attacks against the Kurdish people and to stand alongside Kurdish forces resisting what the letter describes as ‘jihadists’.