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STUDIES ON
MISSING PERSONS
KUCUK: "THE NEW PHASE OF THE PROJECT TO START IN JANUARY 2007"
It has been
announced that the Autonomous Missing Persons Committee would start
a new phase of excavations in January within the project, which has
been conducted in coordination with the Argentine Forensic
Anthropology Team (EAAF).
The Turkish
Cypriot Member of the Committee Gulden Plumer Kucuk told the TAK
news agency that the excavations, which started last August, were
still continuing. She said they extended their contract with EAAF
for 2007.
Kucuk also said
that work was still going on to find further funds for the
continuation of the project next year.
Kucuk explained
that the project consisted of 5 phases; searching the burial places;
carrying out exhumations and finding the remains; registration and
organization of the remains in the Anthropology laboratory;
preparing the remains for identity identification; making the DNA
tests and handing over the remains to their relatives.
"Preparatory
work of the project has ended and we are at the stage of exhuming
the remains and taking them to the Anthropology laboratory," said
Plumer Kucuk.
She noted that,
because of the continuation of unexpected developments, it was not
so easy to set a date for the completion of the project or to
provide the number of the remains found so far.
13 November 2006 | 
