Archive
Photographs, eye witness accounts, news papers articles, and quotes from radio broadcasts, documenting the arrest and/or imprisonment of persons, still missing, by Turkish forces.

Statistics about the Missing

*A few statistics about the Missing Cypriots. These include gender, age, marital and military status distribution, along with the ten most common places of origin, places of disappearance and places where missing persons were last seen.
Gender Distribution
Ages Distribution
Marital Status
Military Status
Top Ten Places of Origin
Top Ten Places of Disappearance
Top Ten Places where Missing Persons were Last Seen

Section I: Testimonies

*Eye witness accounts and sworn testimonies documenting the arrest of persons, still missing, by the Turkish forces after the cessation of hostilities.
Summary of testimony given by Froso Demetriou from Voni village
Summary of testimony given by Lambis Elia from Hartsia village
Summary of testimony given by Costas Andreou from Assia, father of the missing Andreas Kassapis

*Sightings of missing persons in mainland Turkish prisons.
Summary of testimony given by Christakis Ioannou from Pano Dhikomo
Summary of testimony given by Andreas Nicodemos from Trimithi, Kyrenia District
Summary of testimony given by Costas Themistokleous from Omorphita

*Testimonies documenting messages broadcasted on "BAYRAK" Turkish radio station from persons still missing.
Summary of testimony given by Kiki Andreou Symeonides from Kyrenia
Summary of testimony given by Yiannoula Pavlou Argyrou from Kato Lakatamia
Summary of testimony given by Costas Georgi from Assia village

Section II: Turkish press

*Identification of missing persons from evidence in the Turkish and International press.
Translation of article in Milliyet (23.6.76)

Section III: Multimedia documents and fotographs

*Images from a film taken by a Turkish war reporter during the 1974 Turkish invasion in Cyprus.
Image showing the capture of 5, still missing, Greek-Cypriots
Other images from the same film

*Missing - Fate Unknown - A film on the missing Cypriots issue, made by CyBC.
English version: 28K stream, download RealVideo file
Greek version: 28K stream, download RealVideo file

*The Missing Persons' Children - A documentary, made by Mega TV channel, about the lives of these fatherless children, both during and after 1974.
For modem users: 56K stream, download RealVideo file
For broadband users: 256K stream, download RealVideo file
(the film is in Greek)

Note: For viewing the films we recommend RealPlayer 8 or later .

Section IV: International Concern

*Positions taken by international organizations on the issue of the missing Greek-Cypriots.

United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 3450 (XXX)
United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 32/128
United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 33/172
United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 36/164
United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 37/181

United Nations General Assembly - Resolution 3220 (XXIX)
(showing the line the United Nations follows on missing persons issues)

The XXIVth International Conference of the Red Cross

European Commission of Human Rights - Applications Nos. 6780/74 & 6950/75
European Commission of Human Rights - Application No. 8007/77

Address of the Attorney-General of the Republic of Cyprus before the European Court of Human Rights


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