Missing Persons Cyprus

EDM number 1370 in 2007-08, proposed by Alan Meale on 21/04/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Asia, Europe and Human rights.

That this House notes that in the recent European Court of Human Rights judgement Varnava and others v Turkey it was found that Turkey was guilty of violating the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), through its failure to investigate or take action over the fates of the nine applicants to the Court who, although witnessed alive and under the detention of the Turkish Army in both Cyprus and Turkey following the illegal invasion and hostilities on the island in 1974, remain today missing persons, believed dead; believes that Turkey's violation of those persons' liberty was and remains a crime against humanity; further believes that the fates of more than one thousand others connected to the same conflict, many of whom are the relatives of British citizens, should be similarly categorised; and calls upon the Government to demand of Turkey that it immediately complies with the judgement of the ECHR in this case and also promptly provides full details of other missing persons in its charge before their disappearance.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.