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Families of students and graduates from universities in Northern Cyprus staged a protest on Wednesday outside Parliament in Rabat, calling for the freeze on the equivalency of their university degrees to be lifted. They said the decision had disrupted the professional paths of hundreds of graduates.
The protesters, including doctors, engineers, and PhD holders, carried banners and chanted slogans denouncing what they described as the «waste of talent» and a «rollback of acquired rights». They stressed that their degrees were issued by internationally recognized universities with global rankings and warned that the continued suspension of equivalency threatens the future of hundreds of young Moroccans and prevents them from entering the job market.
Participants in the protest called on the supervising minister to intervene urgently to resolve the issue, insisting that degree equivalency is a legal and constitutional right that should not be obstructed.
For their part, the families said their children had invested years of study and incurred significant financial costs to complete their university education, only to be confronted with administrative decisions that froze the equivalency process and halted their professional careers. They called for the procedure to be activated immediately so graduates can practice in their respective fields.
It is worth noting that since 2024, Moroccan graduates of universities in Northern Cyprus have found themselves in a difficult situation following the suspension of recognition of their degrees, preventing them from accessing the labor market and fueling repeated protests.
