Gulden Plumer Kucuk: remains of missing persons have been found in military zones
Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris newspaper (14.09.12) reports that Gulden Plumer Kucuk, Turkish Cypriot member of the Committee on Missing Persons, stated yesterday that excavations for finding missing persons have been carried out in 16 points in military zones in the occupied area of Cyprus and that remains of missing persons were found in many places.

Responding to questions of illegal TAK news agency, Kucuk said that their priority was to complete the excavations in non-military zones and after that to start in military zones, but as a result of what she described as “good relations” with the military authorities, they carried out excavations in 16 points in military zones, in spite of the fact that excavations in non-military zones continued.

“According to the list we have in our hands, there are more than 200 places that should be excavated’, she noted and added that this number changes because they receive information every day from eye witnesses. “Have all the works in non-military zones ended and only the military zones remained”, she wondered.

Commenting on information published in the Greek Cypriot press that the biggest grave with missing persons had been found in the area of occupied Hamit Mandres village, Kucuk argued that this is “definitely wrong” and added that the biggest grave with missing persons was in occupied Aloa, Maratha and Sandalaris villages, where the remains of 126 persons had been found. She added that the second biggest grave had been found in Tohni area with 84 remains and the third biggest grave in occupied Ashia village with the remains of around 80 Greek Cypriots. She said that the remains of only 10 persons were found in Hamit Mandres.