Isaak and Solomou killings: 30 years on, no one has been convicted

This year marks 30 years since the killings of Tasos Isaak and, days later, his cousin Solomos Solomou, and those responsible remain unpunished.

The 24-year-old Isaak was killed on August 11, 1996, during an anti-occupation demonstration in the dead zone at Deryneia. He had taken part in a motorcyclists’ march that set out from Berlin bound for occupied Kyrenia. When the group of riders reached the dead zone at Deryneia that day, clashes broke out between protesters and Turkish Cypriots and...