Twenty-five years have passed since their murder Tasou Isaac and Solomon Solomon on August 11, 1996 on the Green Line, in the area of Deryneia, south of Famagusta.
Tassos Isaac, then 24, was beaten to death by Turks, Turkish Cypriots and Gray Wolves, following an international protest by motorcyclists over the ongoing occupation of northern Cyprus.
According to the UN report, Tassos Isaac breathed his last 95 meters from the Greek Cypriot side and 32 meters from the Turkish Cypriot side. A total of 54 Greek Cypriots, 17 Turkish Cypriots and 12 members of the Peacekeeping Force were injured in the general clashes in the dead zone.
The funeral of Tassos Isaac took place on August 14. His wife was pregnant with their child. After the funeral, his angry cousin, Solomos Solomou, 26, tried to remove a Turkish flag from an “Green Line” outpost, to fall dead from a fire from the Occupied Territories.
As a sign of gratitude for his services to Greece, the Greek government decided to be the foster parent of the unborn baby. When the baby girl was born, Anastasia was baptized by the then Greek Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangalos.
On June 24, 2008, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found Turkey guilty of killing Tassos Isaac under Article 2 of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. He also awarded monetary compensation to the family of Tassos Isaac.
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