Posts tagged with "CMP"

Missing persons' remains located in the north Cyprus

Missing persons' remains located in the north

October 12th, 2017 Teams searching for people missing since the intercommunal clashes in the 60s and the Turkish invasion in 1974 have located the remains of two individuals during an excavation inside a military zone in the north. A statement from the committee on missing persons (Cmp) said the remains were exhumed in Kontemenos, located north-west of...
‘No solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights’ Cyprus

‘No solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights’

October 7th, 2017 There can be no solution with Turkish guarantees and intervention rights, nor with the permanent presence of Turkish troops, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou reiterated on Saturday at the funeral of an identified missing person. Photiou was addressing the funeral of Kyriakos Aristodimou, who had been missing since 1974 and...
Excavations at two mass graves to start next month Cyprus

Excavations at two mass graves to start next month

August 19th, 2017 Digging for the remains of Greek Cypriot missing persons in two mass graves at Ornithi, an area just outside the Turkish-held village of Ashia will commence by the end of next month, the Greek Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) Nestoras Nestoros said on Friday. Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, Nestoros said...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP Cyprus

Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

July 21st, 2017 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Friday expressed its thanks to Ireland for its donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €325,000 over the past ten years. “This donation to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification, and Return of Remains of Missing Persons in...
The Netherlands donates €122,000 to CMP Cyprus

The Netherlands donates €122,000 to CMP

July 14th, 2017 The Netherlands has donated €122,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Friday. According to a news release, the committee expressed its sincere thanks to the Netherlands for its donation, which brings the Dutch financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €622,000 over the past eleven...
Germany donates €100,000 to CMP Cyprus

Germany donates €100,000 to CMP

July 13th, 2017 The Federal Republic of Germany donated on Thursday €100,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). “This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus will contribute to the Committee’s goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing individuals...
Remains found in military area of Dherynia Cyprus

Remains found in military area of Dherynia

June 29th, 2017 Experts working for the missing persons committee (CMP) have located the remains of at least one individual in a military area in Dherynia, Famagusta, it was announced on Thursday. The CMP said its bi-communal excavation teams were continuing excavations at Voni/Gökhan, Bogazi/Boğaz, and Kontemenos/ Kılıçarslan, which are inside...
Karpas skull identified as Ottoman Cyprus

Karpas skull identified as Ottoman

June 20th, 2017 A skull found on Monday in an area called Elisi, between Ayios Symeon and Korovia on the Karpas peninsula in the north, is thought to belong to an Ottoman Muslim, the daily Kibris newspaper reported. Turkish Cypriot authorities and archaeologists from the Missing Persons Committee went to the area to investigate the skull, found lying...
Remains of Greek fallen handed over (Updated) Cyprus

Remains of Greek fallen handed over (Updated)

May 26th, 2017 The remains of 16 Greek soldiers who were killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus and of one soldier who was killed on board the vessel Fatehon in 1964 when the Turkish air force bombed and sank the ship were returned on Friday. A special church ceremony to mark the return took place in Nicosia. The remains were...
Mystery body in north grave could be great-grandmother of slain Kalopsidiotis Cyprus

Mystery body in north grave could be great-grandmother of slain Kalopsidiotis

May 21st, 2017 Politis says it may have solved the mystery of the identity of an elderly woman hurriedly buried in an existing grave in the north in 1974, and that it might be the great-grandmother of murdered businessman Phanos Kalopsidiotis, it reported on Sunday. Two weeks ago the paper published a photo of what appeared to be the only intact...
Australia donates €7,000 to CMP Cyprus

Australia donates €7,000 to CMP

May 18th, 2017 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday  thanked Australia for its donation of €7,000 saying this had brought  the country’s financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €13,300 over the past ten years. The CMP said the donation would contribute to its goal of identifying and returning as many remains of missing...
CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons Cyprus

CMP excavation teams locate the remains of three missing persons

May 16th, 2017 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) excavation teams have located the remains of one individual in a civilian area in Famagusta, and the remains of two additional individuals within a military zone at Saint Hilarion in the north, on May 15, the Committee said. In addition to the aforementioned sites, the CMP bi-communal excavation...
CMP finds human remains in north military zone Cyprus

CMP finds human remains in north military zone

May 11th, 2017 Human remains were found on Thursday in a military zone in Ayios Ilarionas on Pentadaktylos mountain range in the north. The discovery was made by crews working for the committee on missing persons. Greek Cypriot member of the CMP Nestoras Nestoros said the remains were found north of a furnace in which bones were discovered in the...
CMP to use UN documents to help find burial sites Cyprus

CMP to use UN documents to help find burial sites

May 11th, 2017 Documents retrieved from United Nations archives in New York are to be used to help investigators locate some of the island’s missing, the Committee for Missing Persons announced on Tuesday. Three members of the committee were in New York from April 24 to May 5 to search confidential and publicly accessible UN archives from the...
Remains of three missing Greek soldiers identified by CMP Cyprus

Remains of three missing Greek soldiers identified by CMP

April 21st, 2017 The families of three Greek soldiers, who went missing during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, have been informed this week that their remains were recently identified and they will be handed over to the next of kin during an official ceremony in Cyprus on May 25.Their remains were found during the period January to May 2015, close...
Cyprus donates €125K to CMP Cyprus

Cyprus donates €125K to CMP

April 20th, 2017 Cyprus donated €125,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), it was announced on Thursday. The CMP expressed its sincere thanks to the Republic of Cyprus for its donation, which brings the country’s financial assistance to the committee to around €2.5m since 2005. “This donation to the CMP project on the exhumation,...
UK donates €124,000 to CMP, offers to open its archives Cyprus

UK donates €124,000 to CMP, offers to open its archives

March 31st, 2017 The British government on Friday donated €124,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and granted access to its archives for the period between 1963 and 1974 to assist in the committee’s task of locating burial sites. The donation was made by the UK High Commissioner to Cyprus, Matthew Kidd, who visited  the committee’s...
Turkey donates €92,000 to CMP Cyprus

Turkey donates €92,000 to CMP

March 29th, 2017 Turkey on Wednesday donated €92,000 to the project of exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons in Cyprus, it was announced on Wednesday. According to the committee on missing persons (CMP), the donation brings the Turkish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €826,000 over the past 10...
Over 300 missing persons identifications to be reviewed by US lab Cyprus

Over 300 missing persons identifications to be reviewed by US lab

February 26th, 2017 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has decided to review the statistical correlation of genetic results with those of relatives of missing persons in cases that were identified at The Cyprus Institute of Neurology & Genetics (CING) between 2007 and 2012. The process will take place at the US BODE forensics laboratory. CMP...
New push to raise awareness of missing persons issue abroad Cyprus

New push to raise awareness of missing persons issue abroad

February 8th, 2017 A meeting of competent authorities, which convened on Wednesday decided on a series of actions abroad to help raise awareness about the issue of missing persons. The meeting was attended by all relevant services and representatives of organisations of relatives of missing persons, under the presidency of the Presidential Commissioner...
Religious leaders unite in missing call Cyprus

Religious leaders unite in missing call

December 10th, 2016 The leaders of religious communities in Cyprus joined forces with the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in a call for new information on burial sites of Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots whose fate is still unknown, it was announced on Saturday. In a brief recorded message, Archbishop Chrysostomos, Turkish Cypriot mufti Talip...
CMP might not have remains to identify in 2017, Photiou says Cyprus

CMP might not have remains to identify in 2017, Photiou says

October 15th, 2016 Turkey’s policy in not being forthcoming in handing over information on missing persons means that by next year, the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) lab might not have any remains for identification, Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Saturday. Speaking in Nicosia at the burial of the remains of Yiannis...
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