Turkey to allow CMP access to 30 suspected burial sites in north
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
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...
Foreign ministry has action plan to break missing person’s deadlock (Updated)
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...
Sevgul Uludag’s name put forward to Nobel committee for her work on missing persons
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...
CoE urges Turkey to assist CMP
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...
CMP hopes Cyprus File will be of use in finding Missing
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...
CMP to launch new excavation in Assia
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...
Liverpool’s Merseyside police investigators train CMP staff
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...
Nicosia prepares bill to counter Turkish arguments on missing persons’ compensation
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...
‘Disappointing year’ for CMP in terms of recovering remains
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...
Ireland donates €25,000 to CMP
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...
Remains of a TC victim of Athalassa bombing handed over to relatives
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...
CMP finds remains of missing person in a well in the north
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...
Call for relatives of persons buried at Athalassa to provide DNA
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...
Relatives of the missing will be given forensic report if requested
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...
Did a fig tree grow out of the remains of a Turkish Cypriot man missing since 1974?
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...
Government donates €135,000 to CMP
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...
Dutch FM hopes to see resumption of Cyprus talks, visits CMP lab
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...
CMP searching for mass grave in Trachonas
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...
Memorial to ‘mothers of the missing’ unveiled
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....
