missing persons Archives

In address to Filipinos, president slams authorities’ ‘casual and careless approach’ to missing persons

Staff ReporterJuly 7, 2019July 7, 2019

By Staff ReporterJuly 7, 2019July 7, 20190919

Any failure by Cypriot authorities to properly investigate cases of missing persons, which in seven instances at least, led to murder by a serial killer,

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Vietnamese woman missing since Tuesday in Limassol

Staff ReporterJuly 4, 2019

By Staff ReporterJuly 4, 201901458

Police are asking the public to assist them in locating 39-year-old Thi Dung Duong, a Vietnamese woman who since Tuesday has been missing from her

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Pensioner, 77, missing in Larnaca

Staff ReporterJuly 4, 2019

By Staff ReporterJuly 4, 20190430

Police are asking the public for assistance in locating 77-year-old Andreas Agathangelou, who has gone missing from his home in the village of Ayii Anargyri,

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New momentum on the cards for CMP

CNA News ServiceJune 22, 2019June 22, 2019

By CNA News ServiceJune 22, 2019June 22, 20190428

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) has been receiving an increased flow of information over the last few weeks, Leonidas Pantelides, the Greek Cypriot member

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Turkey to allow CMP access to 30 suspected burial sites in north

Evie AndreouJune 14, 2019June 14, 2019

By Evie AndreouJune 14, 2019June 14, 201901297

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) announced on Friday Turkey had granted access to 30 suspected burial sites in military areas in the north without

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Slovak FM presents €10,000 donation to CMP

Staff ReporterJune 11, 2019

By Staff ReporterJune 11, 20190216

The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) on Tuesday expressed its thanks to the Slovak Republic for its donation of €10,000 on the occasion of the

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

Staff ReporterApril 9, 2019April 9, 2019

By Staff ReporterApril 9, 2019April 9, 2019073

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

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Sevgul Uludag’s name put forward to Nobel committee for her work on missing persons

Jean ChristouMarch 18, 2019

By Jean ChristouMarch 18, 2019098

Turkish Cypriot author and journalist, Sevgul Uludag, has been put forward to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for her work with the issue of missing

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CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP

Elias HazouMarch 14, 2019

By Elias HazouMarch 14, 20190106

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

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CMP hopes Cyprus File will be of use in finding Missing

Peter MichaelFebruary 4, 2019

By Peter MichaelFebruary 4, 2019029

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

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CMP to launch new excavation in Assia

CNA News ServiceJanuary 21, 2019January 21, 2019

By CNA News ServiceJanuary 21, 2019January 21, 2019020

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

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Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff

CNA News ServiceJanuary 18, 2019

By CNA News ServiceJanuary 18, 2019023

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

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Nicosia prepares bill to counter Turkish arguments on missing persons’ compensation

CNA News ServiceJanuary 9, 2019

By CNA News ServiceJanuary 9, 2019030

Nicosia is preparing a draft bill to counter Turkish arguments that it is not ready to distribute the compensation owed by Ankara to the relatives

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‘Disappointing year’ for CMP in terms of recovering remains

CNA News ServiceDecember 22, 2018December 21, 2018

By CNA News ServiceDecember 22, 2018December 21, 2018068

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

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Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP

Staff ReporterDecember 18, 2018

By Staff ReporterDecember 18, 2018025

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

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

Staff ReporterNovember 27, 2018

By Staff ReporterNovember 27, 2018035

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

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

Staff ReporterNovember 21, 2018November 21, 2018

By Staff ReporterNovember 21, 2018November 21, 2018049

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

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Call for relatives of persons buried at Athalassa to provide DNA

Annette ChrysostomouOctober 9, 2018

By Annette ChrysostomouOctober 9, 2018030

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

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Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested

CNA News ServiceSeptember 24, 2018

By CNA News ServiceSeptember 24, 2018014

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

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

Jean ChristouSeptember 23, 2018September 24, 2018

By Jean ChristouSeptember 23, 2018September 24, 20180302

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