A clear message to the relatives of the missing persons, that will not cease for a moment and at every opportunity to raise the issue of determining the fate of each of the missing persons, in all meetings with her counterparts and other foreign officials in order to exert international pressure on Turkey through informing and raising awareness of the people, President of the Parliament Anita Demetriou sent on Monday, speaking at the event for the Mother of the Missing, held at the Mound of Makedonitissa.
Despite the criminally unwilling and provocatively indifferent attitude of Ankara to a number of UN and Council of Europe resolutions, as well as a number of condemnatory decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, the unremitting and persistent struggles of the relatives of the missing persons have led to the recognition of the issue as a humanitarian one and the achievement of progress in many areas, he said.
The Speaker added that the commencement of exhumation work in both the free and occupied territories in 2006 by the Commission of Inquiry on Missing Persons constituted a humanitarian supreme achievement of the struggles of the relatives, noting that to date a significant number of exhumations had been carried out within the zones of the occupying power, which had resulted in the identification and return of remains to relatives.
The Speaker, referring to what she said was the unimaginable tragedy experienced by the mothers of the missing, paid tribute to all the mothers of the 1974 tragedy, many of whom left in pain, burned out with the grief of loss on their lips.
At the same time, we pay tribute to the mothers of the whole world who continue to gaze at the horizon with the hope of a tiny whisper of existence ended.
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