Posts tagged with "missing persons"

Foreign ministry has action plan to break missing person’s deadlock (Updated) Cyprus

Foreign ministry has action plan to break missing person’s deadlock (Updated)

April 9th, 20191120 The foreign ministry has prepared an action plan to try and break the deadlock on the issue of missing persons, some details of which came to light on Tuesday. The information comes a day after Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said last year was the worst ever for the location of remains, with only ten being...
CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP Cyprus

CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP

March 14th, 20192719 The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe has urged Turkish authorities to assist the Committing on Missing Persons (CMP) in any way it can. During a meeting in Strasbourg this week, the body issued a decision in which it “deeply deplored the decision of Turkey not to participate in the discussions and urged the Turkish...
CMP hopes Cyprus File will be of use in finding Missing Cyprus

CMP hopes Cyprus File will be of use in finding Missing

February 4th, 20192184 The CMP hopes to be able to use information in the Cyprus File to find missing persons, Greek Cypriot representative to the group Nestoras Nestoros said, after receiving the first four volumes on Monday from parliament head Demetris Syllouris. The file was also given to Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou, the Pancyprian...
CMP to launch new excavation in Assia Cyprus

CMP to launch new excavation in Assia

January 21st, 20191206 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) will launch a new excavation on Tuesday in Assia village in the north of the island to locate the remains of two Greek Cypriot soldiers missing since 1974, who according to information by the Turkish Cypriot side were buried there. CNA has learned that the excavation will take place outside a...
Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff Cyprus

Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff

January 18th, 20191978 Two senior trainers from Liverpool’s Merseyside police have provided training in Nicosia to more than 20 Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots involved in the investigative efforts for the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). According to a CMP announcement, the training which took place this week, was led by senior Merseyside police...
‘Disappointing year' for CMP in terms of recovering remains Cyprus

‘Disappointing year' for CMP in terms of recovering remains

December 22nd, 20181752 THE representative of the Greek Cypriot side in the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP), Nestoras Nestoros, on Friday described the results of the Committee’s excavations during 2018 as poor. However, he expressed optimism that things would be better in 2019 and that Turkey would cooperate in helping solving the...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP Cyprus

Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

December 18th, 20181261 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its gratitude to Ireland for its latest donation of €25,000. This brings the Irish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €350,000 over the past 12 years, it said. “This contribution to the CMP Project on the Exhumation, Identification and Return of Remains of...
Remains of a TC victim of Athalassa bombing handed over to relatives Cyprus

Remains of a TC victim of Athalassa bombing handed over to relatives

November 27th, 20181753 The remains of one of three Turkish Cypriots killed along with dozens of Greek Cypriot at the Athalassa psychiatric hospital in Nicosia when it was bombed by Turkish forces in 1974 were handed over to their relatives on Tuesday for a proper funeral. Three Turkish Cypriots lost their lives during the bombing of the...
CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north Cyprus

CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north

November 21st, 20181753 A bi-communal excavation team from the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) has recovered the remains of one individual in a well at Sinda/İnönü in the north on Tuesday, it was announced Wednesday. "This well poses serious safety risks as no authorisation was received by the landowner to open up an access ramp," a...
Call for relatives of persons buried at Athalassa to provide DNA Cyprus

Call for relatives of persons buried at Athalassa to provide DNA

October 9th, 20181310 By Annette Chrysostomou The families of missing persons need to provide genetic material to the commission for humanitarian affairs in order to facilitate the identification of the missing, Xenophon Kallis, advisor to commissioner Photos Photiou, said on Tuesday. Efforts are underway to identify all remains located at the site of...
Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested Cyprus

Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested

September 24th, 2018979 Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou announced on Monday that in the interests of transparency, families of the missing persons will be given, at their request, a detailed forensic report. Photiou was speaking after he signed an agreement with the Νational and Kapodistrian University of Athens to conduct anthropological and...
Did a fig tree grow out of the remains of a Turkish Cypriot man missing since 1974? Cyprus

Did a fig tree grow out of the remains of a Turkish Cypriot man missing since 1974?

September 23rd, 201820727 News was spreading fast on social media and foreign media over the weekend that a missing Turkish Cypriot man’s remains from 1974 were uncovered after a fig tree grew out of a seed in his stomach. The story initially published in Turkish newspaper Hurriyet last week has been picked up by the British tabloids, MSN and other outlets....
Government donates €135,000 to CMP Cyprus

Government donates €135,000 to CMP

September 13th, 20181366 The government on Thursday donated €135,000 to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). This donation brings the Republic of Cyprus’ financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €2,935,700 since 2005, making it the largest single donor country. “This contribution to the CMP project on the exhumation, identification and...
Dutch FM hopes to see resumption of Cyprus talks, visits CMP lab Cyprus

Dutch FM hopes to see resumption of Cyprus talks, visits CMP lab

September 6th, 20181520 Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok on Thursday expressed the hope that UN Secretary-General’s temporary envoy Jane Holl Lute’s consultations will lead to the resumption of Cyprus talks and said he was convinced that with the right political will and flexibility among all involved parties a settlement could be reached. Blok who was on...
CMP searching for mass grave in Trachonas Cyprus

CMP searching for mass grave in Trachonas

August 31st, 20182820 The committee on missing persons (CMP) is searching for a mass grave in Trachonas, in north Nicosia, where it is thought Greek Cypriots were buried during the Turkish invasion in 1974. The excavations are in the same area where 36 missing Greek Cypriots were found in two locations in 2015. CMP member Nestoras Nestoros told the...
Memorial to ‘mothers of the missing’ unveiled Cyprus

Memorial to ‘mothers of the missing’ unveiled

July 19th, 20182280 President Nicos Anastasiades on Thursday evening unveiled a statue dedicated to the mothers of missing persons from the 1963-64 troubles and the 1974 Turkish invasion. The ceremony took place at the military cemetery and war memorial, known as Tymvos Makedonitissas, in Nicosia. Also in attendance was Greece’s defence minister...
Turkey's attitude on missing persons ‘criminal and inhuman’, Photiou says Cyprus

Turkey's attitude on missing persons ‘criminal and inhuman’, Photiou says

June 24th, 20182673 Turkey’s attitude on the humanitarian issue of missing persons is criminal and inhuman, Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou has said, adding that the international community had failed to exert pressure on Ankara. Photiou was speaking at a funeral for Second Lieutenant Christodoulos Hadjichristodoulou of Georgios, who was until...
Missing persons decision has pros and cons, Nestoros says Cyprus

Missing persons decision has pros and cons, Nestoros says

June 9th, 20181623 The decision on missing persons in Cyprus, adopted recently by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, contains positive elements but is also missing some important points, said Nestoras Nestoros, the Representative of the Greek Cypriot side to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). The issue was...
Turkey donates $100,000 to CMP Cyprus

Turkey donates $100,000 to CMP

May 7th, 20182231 The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Monday thanked Turkey for its donation of $100,000 (€83,500). It brings the Turkish financial assistance to the CMP to a total of €909,500 over the past 11 years, the CMP said. “This donation to the CMP Project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons...
Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official Cyprus

Photiou discusses missing persons issue with senior UN official

April 24th, 20181576 The missing persons issue was the main point of discussion at a meeting Presidential Commissioner Photis Photiou had with United Nations Under Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix in New York. Photiou, who is in the US representing the government at the Federation of Cypriot American Organisations meeting,...
Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated) Cyprus

Remains of some missing persons misidentified (updated)

February 16th, 20183838 THE Commissioner of Humanitarian Affairs confirmed on Thursday that the remains of two missing persons have been misidentified. In a statement, reacting to media reports about the error, the commissioner said the misidentified remains had been unearthed in the south of the island. DNA testing by the Cyprus Institute for Neurology...
Some remains found of those buried at psychiatric hospital in 1974 Cyprus

Some remains found of those buried at psychiatric hospital in 1974

January 25th, 20183161 Investigators have recovered remains believed to be those of people killed when the Turkish air force bombed the psychiatric hospital in Nicosia in 1974 and were hastily buried in a crater. The hospital, located in Athalassa in the southeastern outskirts of Nicosia, was bombed on July 20, 1974. Among those killed were 28 Greek...
Plea for elderly witnesses to reveal information on missing Cyprus

Plea for elderly witnesses to reveal information on missing

January 25th, 20182567   A 95-year-old Turkish Cypriot woman pointed out the graves of 36 missing Greek Cypriots just months before she died, it emerged on Wednesday, as officials said older people must be convinced or even pushed to reveal any information they had. They stressed that no one would be prosecuted. Paul-Henri Arni, a member of the...
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