Anastasia Isaak
Anastasia is the daughter of Tassos Isaak who was killed in a civilian demonstration against the Republic of Turkey's military occupation of the northern part of the Republic of Cyprus. When Isaac was killed, he left behind his pregnant wife. As a token of gratitude for his services to Greece, the Greek government decided to be the godparent of the yet unborn baby. When the baby girl was born, she was baptised Anastasia (after her father) by the then Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Theodoros Pangalos. The Greek singer Haris Alexiou has dedicated to her the song "Tragoudi tou Helidhoniou" ("Swallow's Song").
The family including the daughter have taken the case to the European Court of Justice where Turkey was found to have infringed Article 2 ECHR-Right to Life. The family members of the deceased were awarded pecuniary damages.
In 2016 Anastasia visited the Presidential Palace of Herod Atticus as a member of the Isaac-Solomos Memorial Initiative, where she asked the President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos to help her condemn the people who have killed her father.
References[edit]
Isaak and others v Turkey (App no 44587/98)
Anastasia Isaac[edit]
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