WORK ON MISSING PERSONS (18.07.2006)

While the work, being carried out by the Missing Persons Committee in Cyprus is continuing intensively, it is also to enter a new phase next month.

According to information provided by the Turkish Cypriot Member of the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee, Gulden Plumer Kucuk, 5 experts from an Argentine Forensic Medicine Anthropology organization EAAF (Equipo Argentino de Antropologia Forense) will start exhumation work next month.

The exhumations will be carried out both in North and South Cyprus to find the remains of around 180-200 Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot missing persons.

Noting that the remains to be found will be tested at the new Anthropological Laboratory, Gulden Plumer Kucuk said that the equipment of the laboratory is to be completed soon with 90-thousand dollars worth of aid from Turkey.

Kucuk said 2 Turkish Cypriots, 2 Greek Cypriots and a foreigner will be employed in the Laboratory, from where, the remains will be taken to the DNA Institution in South Cyprus where 2 Turkish Cypriot and 4 Greek Cypriot experts will work under the direction of Dr. Erol Baysal and Dr. Marios Cariolou.