Efforts to locate 70 missing from Assia to start in August with landfill search
The expert who oversaw the restoration of a landfill in the north which is believed to be where the remains of 70 missing Greek Cypriots...
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Dramatic reduction in exhumations for missing persons
By Mary Spyrou The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is “particularly concerned” over the dramatic reduction in the number of human remains found in recent...
EU official visits CMP laboratory
The EU’s Director-General for Structural Reform Support Mario Nava on Tuesday met the three members of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) at its anthropological...
CMP exhumed additional remains in April
During the month of April the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has exhumed additional human remains at an excavation site in Bellapais in...
CMP will identify number of remains by end of April
By end of April the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will have identified a number of remains, Leonidas Pantelides, Greek Cypriot Member in the Committee...
Around 40 missing persons close to identification
Around 40 missing people are set to be identified soon by the Committee for Missing Persons (CMP), Akel MP Skevi Koukouma told the Cyprus News...
Issuing death certificates for missing persons under discussion
Political parties are discussing a bill that would allow for the issue of death certificates for missing persons who have been identified through DNA testing...
CMP made little to no headway in 2020
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) said their results in 2020 were very disappointing, mainly due to problems caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to...
Fourteen Turkish Cypriot children identified by CMP buried on Saturday
Fourteen Turkish Cypriot children murdered by the Eoka B Greek Cypriot paramilitary organisation in 1974 were buried in the north on Saturday, according to reports....
TC member of CMP stepping down
Turkish Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), Gulden Plumer Kucuk, announced on Thursday she was stepping down since her contract would not...
Coronavirus: CMP member tests positive
A member of the committee of missing persons (CMP) tested positive for coronavirus, an announcement said on Tuesday. The CMP said they had received confirmation...
Greek president hopes CMP’s work will accelerate, visits lab, court and museum
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Wednesday said she hoped the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) would accelerate, so that relatives could have...
Germany donates €100,000 to CMP
Germany has donated €100,000 to the committee on missing persons (CMP), it was announced on Tuesday. In a statement, the CMP thanked Germany, which has...
CMP exhumed the remains of 10 missing persons so far in 2020
Investigators have exhumed the remains of 10 people since the beginning of the year, as part of a bicommuncal programme to resolve the fates of...
Over half of missing persons cases remain unresolved
Over half of cases before CMP remain unresolved Over 50 per cent of cases before the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) are still missing, and...
CMP confirms that operations are running normally
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus bicommunal excavations resumed on July 2 after the lifting of Covid-19 related restrictions on crossing points, it said...
Work of CMP being hampered by decisions in north over checkpoints
The house refugee committee said on Tuesday the work of the Committee on Missing Persons is being hampered by the recent decisions in the north...
CMP resuming full operations
The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced on Wednesday it is resuming full operations. “With the reopening of crossing points, bi-communal excavations are resuming as...
Coronavirus: With excavations for Missing on hold, CMP reviews old cases
The Covid-19 pandemic has halted all field and lab work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) for the past two months but members say...
CMP announces remains found in Famagusta
The Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has recovered the remains of one person in Famagusta, it announced on Friday. According to the CMP,...