Divided Cyprus’ rival leaders appeal for information on the missing as eyewitnesses die
By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS
Associated Press
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus have made a joint appeal for information that could lead to the buried remains of people who vanished amid violence and war decades ago, as more eyewitnesses die. Cyprus’ Greek Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides and Ersin Tatar, the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots, made the appeal Friday in a symbolic move aiming to show that the humanitarian issue should stay above the complex and often bitter politics of the nearly half-century ethnic split. At the same time, it aimed to inject some fresh impetus into renewed efforts for a resumption of deadlocked talks for a peace deal.
