Turkey gives USD 137,000 to missing persons committee

Turkey has contributed USD 137,000 towards the building of the proposed Anthropology Laboratory in the buffer zone in Nicosia to aid the Committee on Missing Persons. Turkey’s representative in northern Cyprus Aydan Karahan handed the donation cheques to Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat in a ceremony last Wednesday.

“This humanitarian issue should not be exploited with political considerations,” Karahan said.

Part of the donation – USD 87,000 – will be spent on technical equipment for the Laboratory, while the rest will be used to equip the D.N.A. laboratory being set up as part of the same project, in the Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital.

The Turkish government will donate an extra USD 50,000 for the exhumation works.

The Anthropology Laboratory is expected to start functioning after August 20 together with the start of exhumation and identification project.