Autonomous Missing Persons Committee, which has been for a long time carrying out exhumation and identity identification studies for Turkish and Greek Cypriot missing persons, is going to hand over the remains of 28 identified missing persons to their families.

Remains of 13 Turkish Cypriot missing persons from Alaminyo will be taken from the Anthropology Laboratory in the buffer zone, by funeral cars belonging to Lefkosa Turkish Municipality to Lefkosa Cemetery on Thursday (12 July).

13 missing martyrs will be buried in Lefkosa Cemetery with a military funeral upon the request of the families and the decision of the Council of Ministers.

Following 2.5 year studies, the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee has for the first time identified the identities of 28 missing persons and the Committee members visited the families of the missing last week in order to inform them on the issue.

Alaminyo Village of Larnaca District was besieged by Greek Cypriot armed forces and Greek soldiers on 20 July 1974. 15 Turkish Cypriots, who were captured, were executed by shooting then buried altogether in a pit hole in the village according to eye witnesses and this was proved as a result of the exhumations.

While the remains of 13 Turkish Cypriot missing persons have been found in Alaminyo village, the exhumation studies would continue to find 2 other Turkish Cypriots; Mehmet Arif and Hasan Tuccar in the same village.

The names of 13 Turkish Cypriot missing persons whose remains have been found in a mass grave in Alaminyo village are as follows:

“Huseyin Dildar (1944-1974)

Hasan Dildar (1931-1974)

Ahmet Halil (19501974)

Mustafa Ali (1946-1974)

Omer Ali (1951-1974)

Zafer Hasan (1953-1974)

Tahir Osman (1932-1974)

Hasan Ali (1939-1974)

Guney Huseyin (1952-1974)

Ali Hasan (1953-1974)

Ali Bodo (1924-1974)

Mehmet Ali Bodo (1950-1974)