Rizokarpaso Primary School is a Greek-Cypriot primary school 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 ...
, in
Northern Cyprus. For a number of years it was the only Greek language school in Northern Cyprus. It has regularly appeared in Greek language media because it was reported that primary school teachers had been prevented from teaching there by the government of Northern Cyprus.
Notable cases
Eleni Foka was prevented from returning to her village and the primary school, and therefore applied 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 ...
for justice.
[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.
Alexia Koukotsikas and her husband Grigoris Koukotsikas were primary school teachers who taught at Rizokarpaso Primary School in
Northern Cyprus who were prevented, together with their children, from returning to their village and primary school by the government of
Northern Cyprus.
[One-minute speeches on matters of political importance, MEP Tsatsos]
European Parliament, Strasbourg, 1 September 2003. The plight of the Koukotsikas family was raised by MEP
Dimitris Tsatsos at the European Parliament and in the Parliament of Cyprus by the President of the House of Representatives (Mr
Demetris Christofias
Demetris Christofias, also spelled Dimitris Christofias ( el, Δημήτρης Χριστόφιας ; 29 August 1946 – 21 June 2019), was a Cypriot politician who served as the sixth president of Cyprus from 2008 to 2013. Christofias was the Ge ...
).
[ The Cypriot ''Financial Mirror'' newspaper has recorded that as recently as September 2008, the government of Northern Cyprus has prevented schoolteachers from returning to the primary school in Rizokarpaso.School year begins in Cyprus primary education]
Financial Mirror, 4 September 2008.
See also
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Human rights in Northern Cyprus
Human rights in Northern Cyprus are protected by the constitution of Northern Cyprus.[Enclaved Greek Cypriots
Enclaved Greek Cypriots are the Greek Cypriots who have remained in enclaved villages in Northern Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
In 2014, the population of Greek Cypriots was 343. The Greek Cypriots in Rizokarpaso elects the ...]
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Kormakitis
Kormakitis (Cypriot Arabic: ; el, Κορμακίτης, ''Kormakítis''; tr, Kormacit or ) is a small village in Cyprus. It is under the ''de facto'' control of Northern Cyprus. Kormakitis is one of four traditionally Maronite villages in Cypr ...
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Right to education
The right to education has been recognized as a human right in a number of international conventions, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which recognizes a right to free, compulsory primary education for ...
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Romanian-language schools in Transnistria
The Romanian-language schools in Transnistria are subject to limitations by the Government of Transnistria, government of Transnistria, an unrecognized breakaway region of Moldova since 1992.
History
Romanian language, Romanian-language schoo ...
References
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Human rights abuses in Cyprus
Schools in Northern Cyprus
Greek-language education