Eleni Foka is a Greek Cypriot primary school teacher who was victimized by officials of the government of Northern Cyprus. She was a teacher at the Greek-Cypriot elementary school in Ayia Triada, Yialousa, in the Karpas region of Northern Cyprus. This issue was taken to the European Court of Human Rights as an infringement of her human rights.

On 5 May 1994, the United Nations International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination noted 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 [from Northern Cyprus] after 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 has been announced that Eleni Foka has joined the participants of the Greek Cypriots, et al. v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA

Greek Cypriots, et al. v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA

Greek Cypriots, et al. v. TRNC and HSBC Bank USA is a pending class action suit by Greek Cypriots and others against the TRNC Representative Offices in the United States and HSBC Bank USA. The TRNC Representative Offices are a commercial entity because the United States does not formally recognise...

 class action.

Right to education

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 [Republic of] Cyprus government for her return." 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.

See also

• Rizokarpaso
  Rizokarpaso
  Rizokarpaso is a town on the Karpass Peninsula in the Famagusta District, northeastern Cyprus. It has been under Turkish control since the 1974 invasion....
  
  
• Kormakitis
  Kormakitis
  Kormakitis is a small village in Cyprus, part of the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus . Kormakitis is one of four traditionally Maronite villages in Cyprus, the other three being Asomatos, Ayia Marina and Karpaseia...
  
  
• Enclaved Greek Cypriots
  Enclaved Greek Cypriots
  Enclaved Greek Cypriots, more commonly referred to as the Enclaved, are the Greek Cypriots who have remained in enclaved villages in Northern Cyprus after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974....
  
  
• Human rights in Northern Cyprus
  Human rights in Northern Cyprus
  Human rights in Northern Cyprus are protected by the constitution of Northern Cyprus. However, there have been reports of violations of the human rights of minorities, democratic freedom, freedom from discrimination, freedom from torture, freedom of movement, freedom of religion, freedom of speech,...
  
  
• Right to education
  Right to education
  The right to education is a universal entitlement to education, a right that is recognized as a human right. According to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights the right to education includes the right to free, compulsory primary education for all, an obligation to...