In the immediate aftermath of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the authorities’ primary concern was to assist the more than 150,000 people who were displaced and forced to seek shelter in tents and open fields. Amid this humanitarian crisis, the issue of the missing—an unresolved tragedy to this day—began to emerge just weeks later.
Nikos Sergides, chairman of the organisation of relatives of undeclared prisoners and missing persons, said
