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The Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus shares its experience and know-how with countries that have missing persons and want to implement a project for the exhumation, identification and return of remains. This is taking place at a request...

Germany has donated €100,000 ($114,000) to the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) in Cyprus. The donation was made on Monday. The CMP thanked the Federal Republic of Germany for the donation, noting that it raises Germany’s total financial assistance to...

Fourty-four years after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the human toll of this tragedy continues to mount. The remains of one person missing since the invasion were located on Thursday during excavations in the occupied village of Agios Ermolaos. A...

(File photo) A boat carrying about 150 migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus on Wednesday, leaving 19 dead and 25 missing, Turkey's coast guard said, according to Reuters. The coast guard rescued 103 migrants by boats and helicopters 18...

Government and political parties are united in the effort to determine the fate of missing persons, the President of Cyprus Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday. Speaking at an event, in the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, to commemorate the Day of...

After 43 years, archives that were locked away and sealed will be released to contribute in efforts to ascertain the fate of missing persons, said the Defence Ministers of Cyprus and Greece, Christoforos Fokaides and Panos Kammenos respectively after...

Turkey should ensure that no more intrusion of burial sites of missing persons takes place, by employing practical and effective means, says the government of Cyprus. According to Nicosia, it has been established that the intentional relocation of remains belonging...

A painful chapter in the lives of two Greek families, one from the northwestern Greek town of Parga and one on the island of Lesvos, will come to a close next week when the remains of their loved ones...

In the past ten years 558 Greek Cypriots and 184 Turkish Cypriots who were missing were identified and their remains returned to their families. However, for the remaining 950 Greek Cypriots and 309 Turkish Cypriots missing, the wounds remain...

A small number of remains were discovered a few days ago during excavations in a field in the village of Angastina, located in the occupied district of Famagusta. The discovery has raised the hopes of finding other missing persons...

The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe (CoE) has called on Turkey to pursue its “proactive approach to providing the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) with all necessary assistance to continue to achieve tangible results...

Religious leaders in Cyprus will jointly appear in a video, in support of the work of the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP). According to an announcement, the Office of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process that functions under...

Turkey bears a heavy responsibility for the humanitarian issue of missing persons in Cyprus, Presidential Commissioner Fotis Photiou stressed on Saturday. He was speaking at the burial of the remains of Greek Cypriot Antonis Antoniou, who was executed by Turkish soldiers during...

President Nicos Anastasiades has announced that the Cabinet decided to approve the funding of 200,000 euros to be used for the recruitment of researchers who will work intensively to search the archives of UN and other countries and collect...

The Cyprus Foreign Ministry is urging the Turkish government to cooperate for the resolution of the missing persons issue, including granting the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) all information and data that from the Turkish military archives. Turkish-Cypriot “Afrika” reported...