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The three CMP Members present the book “Beneath the Carob Trees: The Lost Lives of Cyprus” to the two Leaders on 14 September 2016.

United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon opens CMP Exhibition at UN Headquarters, New York on 31 May 2016

Visit by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Martin Schulz, to the CMP laboratory,

29 March 2016

Visit of religious leaders of Cyprus to the CMP laboratory,

8 February 2016

Visit of the Leaders to the CMP laboratory,
20 December 2015.

The CMP is determined to find, identify and return to families the remains of the 2001 persons who went missing during the events of 1963-64 and 1974 in Cyprus.

We have returned the remains of more than 600 persons missing from the events of 1963-64 and 1974 to their families

More than 70 Cypriot scientists work to exhume, analyse and identify the remains of missing persons. They are "The Faces of the CMP"

The CMP has excavated more than 1060 suspected burial sites across Cyprus and exhumed the remains of more than 1100 persons.

The three CMP Members present the book “Beneath the Carob Trees: The Lost Lives of Cyprus” to the two Leaders on 14 September 2016.

United Nations Secretary-General
Ban Ki-moon opens CMP Exhibition at UN Headquarters, New York on 31 May 2016

Visit by the President of the European Parliament, Mr. Martin Schulz, to the CMP laboratory,

29 March 2016

Visit of religious leaders of Cyprus to the CMP laboratory,

8 February 2016

Visit of the Leaders to the CMP laboratory,
20 December 2015.

The CMP is determined to find, identify and return to families the remains of the 2001 persons who went missing during the events of 1963-64 and 1974 in Cyprus.

We have returned the remains of more than 600 persons missing from the events of 1963-64 and 1974 to their families

More than 70 Cypriot scientists work to exhume, analyse and identify the remains of missing persons. They are "The Faces of the CMP"

The CMP has excavated more than 1060 suspected burial sites across Cyprus and exhumed the remains of more than 1100 persons.

About the CMP

July 2007 marked a turning point of historical significance: the CMP began returning the first remains of Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot individuals to their families. These individuals had been missing since the tragic events of 1963-64 and 1974.

The primary objective of the CMP is to enable relatives of missing persons to recover the remains of their loved ones, arrange for a proper burial and close a long period of anguish and uncertainty. Most Cypriot families have been directly or indirectly affected and it is hoped that the healing of old wounds will in turn favour the overall process of reconciliation between both communities

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Quick Facts

Number of missing people:
Greek Cypriots: 1508
Turkish Cypriots: 493
Identified Individuals returned to their families:
Greek Cypriots: 499
Turkish Cypriots: 181
Sites excavated:
Opened: 1089
(No of Human remains on sites: 1141)
Sets of Remains analyzed:

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