#Committee for Missing Persons (CMP)

Hours of bombing at Nicosia’s Athalassa hospital in July 1974 left a crater in the ground while a series of makeshift burials took place of those who had died, leading ...

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed “deep appreciation” for the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) during a visit to its anthropological laboratory in Nicosia on Wednesday. Guterres ...

A total of 1,100 people, including the remains of six missing persons recently found at sites in the north, officials told parliament on Tuesday. Speaking before the House refugee committee, Greek ...

Greece has contributed €67,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus, providing further support for efforts to locate, identify and return the remains of missing persons to their families. ...

Cyprus has begun using an advanced DNA testing method to identify the remains of Greek Cypriot soldiers and civilians who went missing during the Turkish invasion of 1974 after conventional techniques ...

The Republic of Kazakhstan has made its first financial contribution to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) with a donation on Tuesday of $10,000 (€8,600), Unficyp announced on Wednesday. Unficyp said the ...

Austria has made its first financial contribution to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), donating €20,000 to support efforts to identify and return the remains of missing individuals in Cyprus. The ...

Greece has contributed €67,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), with the donation designated for the committee’s work during 2026, according to a statement issued by the Greek embassy in ...

Five more individuals are currently undergoing identification at the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) laboratory, with officials confirming on Tuesday that 26 excavation missions have already been completed since the start ...

Excavations by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) are progressing across multiple sites, as two people have been identified this year, Turkish Cypriot member of the committee Haki Muftuzade said ...

A photograph circulating online showing two blindfolded men, believed to be Greek Cypriot prisoners of war from 1974, has been verified as authentic by a former Turkish broadcaster who says he ...

A €1 million fund has been approved for specialised genetic testing to help identify remains of missing persons, the office of the presidential commissioner said on Thursday. Officials said the new ...

The tragedy of missing persons in Cyprus is one of the island’s deepest and most enduring wounds. It is also one of the few areas where meaningful bicommunal cooperation ...

Defence Minister Vasilis Palmas on Tuesday delivered a speech at the 41st Marathon of Love for Missing Persons, expressing “deep emotion and utmost respect” while reaffirming the state’s support ...

Excavation works are underway in Kato Deryneia, Ayios Memnonas, where the committee of missing persons (CMP) is actively searching for the remains of twelve individuals, including women and children. Speaking ...

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 ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Wednesday announced that it had received a donation amounting to £15,000 (€17,282) from the United Kingdom. The donation brings the total amount donated by the ...

The committee of ministers of the Council of Europe on Wednesday called on Turkey to grant unhindered access to all areas where the remains of missing persons from Cyprus may ...

Turkish Cypriots employed at the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) called off a planned strike on Monday, after receiving their back pay at the last minute. The 50 employees ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Thursday announced that it had received a donation of €2.6 million from the European Union. “The funds will support the committee’s goal of ...

Twelve missing people were identified in 2025 by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), while the remains of 20 more were discovered during excavations, Greek Cypriot representative Leonidas Pantelides told the Cyprus ...

Germany on Thursday donated €200,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), dedicated to locating and identifying remains. Thursday’s donation bringing Germany’s financial assistance to the CMP to €1.6 million ...

President Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman paid a joint visit to the Committee on Missing Persons’ laboratory in the buffer zone in Nicosia on Thursday, ahead of ...

Excavations are being carried out at seven locations across Cyprus in search of people who went missing during intercommunal conflicts between 1963 and 1974, House refugees committee chairman and Akel MP Nikos ...