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DONATION
FROM
TURKEY TO MISSING PERSONS COMMITTEE
(09.02.2007)
Turkey has
donated 50 thousand US Dollars to the Autonomous Missing Persons
Committee to be used in the Project of Exhumation and Identity
Identification.
Turkish
Ambassador to Nicosia, Turkekul Kurttekin yesterday (8 February)
submitted the check to President Mehmet Ali Talat. During the
meeting, where the Missing Persons Committee’s Third Member
Christophe Girod was also present, Ambassador Kurttekin stated that
Turkey supported the studies of the Committee and the missing
persons issue was not a political, but a humanitarian issue. He
added that he hoped this donation, which was the last part of the
total amount of donations, would help the studies of the Committee
to be completed.
President
Talat speaking while receiving the check reiterated that the missing
persons issue was totally humanitarian and thanked Turkey for her
financial and moral contributions to the Committee.
President
Talat pointed out that they were doing their utmost to conclude the
Project of Exhumation and Identity Identification.
Meanwhile,
according to the information given by the Missing Persons
Committee’s Turkish Cypriot Member Gulden Plumer Kucuk, Turkey’s
donations to the Committee up until today including the last
donation is total of 190 thousand US Dollars. 50 thousand Dollars
out of this was used for the studies of the DNA center and 90
thousand dollars for the studies of anthropology laboratory.
9 February 2007
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