The 21st to 25th of December Struggle and Martyrs Remembrance Week will begin tomorrow.
The remembrance week will start with a speech delivered by the Staff Lieutenant Colonel İbrahim Şeker from the Security Forces Command on BRT tomorrow at 8am and will be broadcast again at 6pm the same day.
The ceremony will begin with a wreath laying ceremony at the Martyrs Monument in Lefkoşa which then will be followed by a Martyrs Commemoration Program at the Atatürk Culture Centre in Lefkoşa.
All ceremonies will be held within the framework of Covid-19 measures.
A Mevlid-i Şerif (religious prayers) will be read for martyrs at 11.49am in all central mosques across the TRNC on Tuesday, December 21.
The Post Office will be issuing a special edition stamp for the“21-25 December Struggle and Martyrs Remembrance Week.”
Meanwhile, ceremonies will be held on Wednesday December 22 to remember the Ayvasıl Martyrs.
Turkish Cypriots from villages and towns in Larnaca who were martyred or went missing during the years of the National Struggle and the 1974 Peace Operation will be remembered on Thursday December 23. The Küçükkaymaklı Martyrs will be remembered on Saturday December 25.