A funeral service was held on Friday for Resat Ahmet, who was one of four men killed when the taxi in which they were riding was ambushed during intercommunal violence in Larnaca in 1964.

The remains of Ahmet’s body had been found by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) during excavations in the Larnaca district village of Troulloi.

Friday’s funeral was held at the Turkish Cypriot Nicosia cemetery, and was attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman, the Turkish Cypriot member of the CMP Hakki Muftuzade, Turkish Cypriot police chief Ali Adalier, and others.

Ahmet was then laid to rest at a cemetery in the northern Nicosia suburb of Ortakoy.

According to researcher Sevgul Uludag, Ahmet, who was a taxi driver by trade, was driving two passengers, named Esref Salih and Fuat Niyazi, from the Famagusta district village of Engomi to Larnaca on May 12, 1964, so that Salih, a radio repair man, could deliver a radio he had repaired to its owner.

Uludag wrote that Ahmet’s taxi was stopped in front of the American Academy in Larnaca by “a group of Greek Cypriot fascists led by [George Grivas]”, who killed all three men and threw their bodies in a well in Troulloi.

She said that a fourth man, named Mustafa Mulla Huseyin, had been killed and thrown in the same well on December 27, 1963.

Excavations of the well began in 2022, with the bodies of Huseyin, Niyazi, and Salih being recovered and identified. Ahmet was the last of the four to be identified.