Küçük: “Excavation works will continue in summer”

Gülden Plümer Küçük, a Turkish Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons stated that the excavation works of the Committee will continue this summer. Küçük also announced that 9 teams formed by the Committee have been continuing their work and in this context, excavation in the Tekke Garden is still underway.

The excavation work at Muratağa-Sandallar mass graves has been completed and the remains of 89 victims were sent to the Anthropology Laboratory in order to determine their identities. Küçük also said that the remains of 37 missing persons in the second burial site, Atlılar village, will also be taken out in the coming months.

Küçük added that the missing persons whose remains were found in Paraglişa, South Cyprus, will be identified in the coming weeks.

Regarding the comment of the Greek Cypriot Presidential Commissioner Fotis Fotiu that there is a dramatic decrease in the number of Greek Cypriots’ remains found during the excavations in North Cyprus, Küçük said that this is due to the absence of mass graves. Rather, it appears that the remains are buried in smaller sites, harder to locate.