Killing of Tassos Isaac

Isaac was beaten to death by a mob of Turkish far-right ultranationalists of the Grey Wolves in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.

[1] Due to heavy political pressure (even by the U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali) being applied to the Cypriot Motorcycle Federation to cancel the 11 August event, CMF finally succumbed.

Among them was Tassos Isaac, who together with other demonstrators, entered the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus near Deryneia, just south of the town of Famagusta.

During the confrontation in the UN buffer zone between the Cypriot bikers and the Turkish far-right group Grey Wolves, Isaac found himself trapped in barbed-wire without his co-protesters noticing he was left behind.

They continued for several minutes, unchallenged by the nearby UN peacekeepers or Turkish Cypriot police officers watching the beating, with some of the latter also partaking in the attack.