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Thursday, November 5, 2015

Turkey opens military areas in Cyprus to search for missing

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Turkey has granted access to 30 suspected grave sites in military-controlled areas in northern Cyprus, a move that will significantly speed up exhumation work, an official with a committee searching for missing persons on the war-divided island nation said Thursday. Some 1,500 Greek Cypriots and 500 Turkish Cypriots had disappeared from the mid-1960s during fighting between the two communities, as well as the invasion. Greek Cypriot officials have urged Turkey to help ease the exhumation work as a sign of its willingness to help peace talks.


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