Enclaved Greek Cypriots are the

Greek Cypriots Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνοκύπριοι, Ellinokýprioi, tr, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2011 census, 659,115 ...

who have remained in enclaved villages in

Northern Cyprus Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus. Reco ...

after the

Turkish invasion of Cyprus The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month. Taking place upon a background of intercommunal violence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots, and in response to a Greek junta-sp ...

in 1974. In 2014, the population of Greek Cypriots was 343. The Greek Cypriots in

Rizokarpaso Rizokarpaso ( el, Ριζοκάρπασο []; tr, Dipkarpaz) is a town on the Karpas Peninsula in the Northeastern part of Geography of Cyprus, Cyprus. While nominally part of the Famagusta District of the Republic of Cyprus, it has been under th ...

elects their muhtar in the elections organized in the south by Republic of Cyprus (that has no legal personality in the laws of Northern Cyprus).

Notable cases of discrimination

Eleni Foka was one of three Greek Cypriot primary school teachers in Karpasia, whose safety was called into question. She was a teacher at the Greek-Cypriot elementary school in Ayia Triada, Yialousa, in the Northern Cyprus' Karpas region.Case of Foka v. Turkey(Application no. 28940/95)
European Court of Human Rights, 24 June 2008. She took her issue to the

European Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR or ECtHR), also known as the Strasbourg Court, is an international court of the Council of Europe which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights. The court hears applications alleging that a ...

.Press release issued by the Registrar, Chamber judgments concerning Lithuania, Romania and Turkey, Foka v. Turkey (no. 28940/95)
European Court of Human Rights, 24 June 2008. On 5 May 1994, her case was mentioned in a report submitted by the Republic of Cyprus to the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination. It stated that:

"At the beginning of March 1994, the Greek Cypriot teacher of the enclaved school in Ayia Triada, Ms. Eleni Foka, was very nearly expelled rom Northern Cyprusafter making a public statement to the effect that she felt threatened. It was only after repeated protests that her expulsion was prevented.

In February 2011, it was announced that Eleni Foka has joined the participants of the ''

Greek Cypriots, et al. v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA ''Toumazou et al. v. Republic of Turkey et al.'', was a class action suit by Greek Cypriots and others against the TRNC Representative Offices in the United States and HSBC Bank USA. Turkey was dropped as defendant on 16 February 2010 and the lawsu ...

'' class action. In September 2014, United States Federal Court rejected the case of Greek Cypriots. In the 1996/7 school year the primary school in Ayia Triada had to close down "due to the denial of the Turkish occupational forces to allow the school teacher Mrs Eleni Foka to return to her village, regardless of the intense efforts of the epublic ofCyprus government for her return." The Cypriot ''Financial Mirror'' newspaper has recorded that as recently as September 2008, the government of

has prevented schoolteachers from returning to the primary school in Rizokarpaso.School year begins in Cyprus primary education
Financial Mirror, 4 September 2008.

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Greek Cypriot people Greek enclaves in Northern Cyprus {{Cyprus-stub

Notable cases of discrimination

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