however, since 2004, the whole issue of missing persons in cyprus took a new turn after the committee on missing persons (cmp) designed and started to implement (as from august 2006) its project on the exhumation, identification and return of remains of missing persons. the whole project is being implemented by bi-communal teams of greek cypriots and turkish cypriot scientists (archaeologists, anthropologists and geneticists) under the overall responsibility of the cmp. by the end of 2007, 57 individuals had been identified and their remains returned to their families.