Thousands of people went missing in Cyprus after its northern part was invaded by Turkey in 1974, and their families still await reparation and justice.
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The figure of 2,002 missing persons covers both the 1960s intercommunal unrest and the 1974 events, so not all of them went missing strictly 'after' the 1974 invasion, although the large majority (1,510 Greek Cypriots and 492 Turkish Cypriots) disappeared in connection with the 1974 events.
'Thousands' is at the lower boundary of the term: the agreed total is exactly 2,002.
As of end-2025 the CMP had already identified 1,063 of the 2,002 missing persons, so roughly half of the families have received remains; the claim that families 'still await reparation and justice' applies in full to the several hundred still-unidentified cases, a situation that the Council of Europe still keeps under supervision.
The Council of Europe supervision source (CM/Notes of March 2026) was published shortly before the session date and reports data up to 31 December 2025, which the MEP could have known.