#missing persons

Excavations in the north, at Pente Mili in Karavas, are underway to find and exhume the bodies of the first people who died during the 1974 Turkish invasion – an estimated 40 to 70 ...

President Nikos Christodoulides attended the unveiling ceremony of the Monument of Fallen, and Missing Persons of the Pigi and Peristerona Communities in Famagusta during the Turkish invasion of 1974. During his ...

Cyprus and Armenia reaffirmed that they will cooperate on the issue of missing persons faced by both countries. The confirmation came during a meeting between the head of humanitarian affairs ...

The head of Humanitarian Affairs for Missing and Enclaved Persons Anna Aristotelous stressed her office’s “unwavering commitment to uncovering the truth about the missing individuals.” Speaking at an event ...

EU MP and rapporteur on missing persons in Cyprus Isabel Santos on Sunday said she supports the idea of creating a truth and reconciliation commission on the island, and that ...

A Turkish Cypriot missing person, who was found and identified by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), will be buried on Friday. Mustafa Mulla Huseyin was 27 years old and married ...

The House of Representatives announced this week that the issue of missing persons in Cyprus will be discussed during a visit of the Standing Committee on Refugees, Enclaved, Missing, and ...

The Representatives of the Greek Cypriot community and the Turkish Cypriot community to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP), Leonidas Pantelides and Hakki Muftuzade, respectively, on Sunday underlined the importance ...

The UN Secretary-General continues to be in active consultation with both sides on the appointment of an envoy for the Cyprus problem, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar held a meeting with Isabel Santos, the European Parliament’s rapporteur on missing persons in Cyprus, on Thursday. The meeting was also attended by Confidence ...

Xenophon Kallis, head of the missing persons service at the foreign ministry for many years, has passed away at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, CyBc reported ...

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) is striving to accelerate the pace of recovery, identification, and return of remains to the families and are utilising new technologies to help in ...

Excavation works have started in the Aloa village, where dozens of Turkish Cypriots were killed ahead of the second leg of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus 1974, the Turkish Cypriot member ...

The Standing Rapporteur on the missing persons in Cyprus, MEP Isabel Santos met with relatives of the missing during her visit on the island on Saturday. Santos held meetings with ...

House Speaker Annita Demetriou on Thursday emphasised the urgency of addressing the fate of missing persons in Cyprus and called for pressure to be exerted on Turkey to allow access ...

Germany and other countries are poised to withdraw their funding for Cyprus’ committee of missing persons (CMP), Greek Cypriot member Leonidas Pantelides told the house refugee committee on Tuesday. In ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday said that the government is approaching the missing persons’ issue with urgency, claiming “time is running out.” Christodoulides’ statements came after a meeting with the ...

New book by the Turkish Cypriot representative on the Committee of Missing Persons By Nikolaos Prakas Fifteen years and all the ups and downs, successes and failures come to life ...

There is information and testimonies that may lead to the recovery of the remains of more missing persons in 2023 after a particularly bad year in 2022, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou said ...

The government on Thursday sent a message to the international community to remind it of the need to clarify the fate the missing persons in Cyprus. Speaking at the unveiling ...

A monument commemorating Strovolos residents who died or went missing in 1974 has been vandalised, Strovolos municipality announced on Thursday. In a written statement, the municipality described the damages to the ...

The amount of money needed for work at Dikomo landfill, where the remains of approximately 70 Greek Cypriots are believed to be buried, is huge, close to €10 million, but the work ...

In light of the anniversaries of the 1974 coup and Turkish invasion of the island, President Nicos Anastasiades, gave assurances on Tuesday that the state will continue its efforts, despite all ...

In a meeting with relatives of Greek missing persons on Monday, Presidential Commissioner, Fotis Fotiou, acknowledged their “agony of anguish and uncertainty about the fate of their loved ones” and ...