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STUDIES ON
MISSING PERSONS… (19.08.05)
Within the
framework of ongoing studies on the missing persons issue, the DNA Laboratory
that is planned to be set up in the following months at the Nicosia State
Hospital in the TRNC will operate under the Ministry of Health. The laboratory
will only carry out studies on the missing persons and after obtaining blood
samples from the relatives of the missing it will carry out the preliminary
investigation. The identification process will be carried out by the Genetic
Hospital, which operates in line with world standards, in the Buffer Zone.
Turkish
Cypriot Genetic and DNA expert Dr. Erol Baysal, who was invited to the TRNC by
President Talat to carry out studies on the laboratory's infrastructure, said
the in the initial stages the laboratory at the Nicosia State Hospital would
obtain blood samples for detailed examination from the relatives of the
missing, and under the supervision of the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee
the identification process would then be carried out at the Genetic Hospital
in the Buffer Zone. He said both Turkish and Greek Cypriot experts would be
working together under equal conditions as administrators and experts at the
Genetic Hospital.
Following
urgent individual diggings that were carried out in the Kyrenia region between
June to July, it is expected that under the supervision of the INFORCE
forensic group, mass graves will be exhumed in both the TRNC and the Greek
Cypriot administration in October and November.
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