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CMP's Archeologists at work on an excavation site in Lapta, Northen Cyprus. Seden Uyaroglu, a Turkish Cypriot CMP archeologist on an excavation site in Lapta, Northen Cyprus. Frixos Marcou, a Greek Cypriot CMP archeologist on an excavation site in Lapta, Northen Cyprus. Archeologists of the CMP at work on an excavation site in Lapta, Northen Cyprus. CMP excavation site. Lapta, Northen Cyprus. An CMP excavation site located on the site of a new building on the same part of coastline where the 1974 invasion started. Lapta, Northen Cyprus. Remains waiting to be identified inside the CMP Labs. CMP Labs, UN buffer zone, Nicosia, Cyprus. Lab scientists working on the identification of some remains. CMP Labs, UN buffer zone, Nicosia, Cyprus. One of the lab scientists showing a bullet perforation point on a skull. CMP Labs, UN buffer zone, Nicosia, Cyprus. Detail of the CMP viewing room, where families can visit the remains of their relatives that have been found. The room is every time adapted for a Christian Orthodox or Muslim family CMP Labs, UN buffer zone, Nicosia, Cyprus. The location where the bicommunal has his laboratories. UN buffer zone, Nicosia, Cyprus. Berk Sevilay is a Turkish Cypriot who has seen both of her parents disappear during the phase prior to the Turkish Invasion and now their remains have been returned through the work of the CMP. Nicosia, Northern Cyprus.

The CMP (Committee on Missing Persons) was established in 1981 by agreement between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities under the auspices of the United Nations, having as a goal to recover, identify, and return to their families, the remains of 2002 persons (492 Turkish Cypriots and 1,510 Greek Cypriots) who went missing during the inter-communal fighting of 1963 to 1964 and the events of 1974.

Only in 2006 after the opening of checkpoints trough the border the climate was ripe for the CMP to begin excavations and exhumations on both sides of the island.

Since then are 955 the individuals that have been returned to their families over 1297 sites excavated.
The CMP as of today is the only material link the two communities on the island have.