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MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE...
BONES OF 75 MISSING PERSONS ARE READY FOR DNA TESTING
Remains belonging to 75 missing persons exhumed during the
individual and mass excavations in both Turkish and Greek Cypriot
sides will soon be handed over to the Genetical Institute in South
Cyprus for identity identification through DNA testing. By sending
the remains of 75 missing persons out of the remains of 200 Turkish
and Greek Cypriots, which were gathered in the Anthropology
Laboratory set up in the buffer zone with this aim, to the Genetical
Institute for DNA testing, the process of identity identification
will be initiated. It was reported that the identity identification
process of those 75 remains would take 2 and a half months.
Within the framework of the program prepared by the
Autonomous Missing Persons Committee formed of a Turkish, Greek and
a UN representative, missing persons’ remains exhumed in both sides
in Cyprus, were firstly gathered in the Anthropology Laboratory.
Following the handing over of the remains of 75 missing persons to
the Genetical Institute, the rest of the remains will be sent part
by part to the Institute.
Following the completion of the identity identification
process, which would be carried out by both Turkish and Greek
Cypriot experts in line with the agreement signed between the two
sides, the process of handing over the remains of missing persons to
their relatives will start.
Turkish Cypriot side will send the samples of the
remains of Turkish Cypriot missing persons gathered in the DNA
Laboratory in Dr. Burhan Nalbantoğlu State Hospital to the Genetical
Institute.
Meanwhile, the exhumation studies of the Missing Persons
Committee are systematically continuing. Until the beginning of
2007, in addition to individual exhumations, about 10 mass grave
exhumations have been carried out in both Turkish and Greek Cypriot
sides.
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February 2007
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