A funeral was held on Friday for a woman from Polis Chrysochous who had been missing since 1974, and whose remains were unearthed by the Committee on Missing Persons (CMP).

Ayse Ramadan was 25 when the Turkish Cypriot enclave in Polis Chrysochous was attacked on July 22, 1974.

Missing persons expert Sevgul Uludag wrote in newspaper Yeniduzen that Ramadan had taken refuge in the village’s Turkish Cypriot primary school when the attack was launched, and that she was shot.

She wrote that in 2013, a man named Sevket Rado had led the CMP to a burial site near the village, as he and four other Turkish Cypriots had been forced to bury the bodies. As such, she said, “Sevket knew exactly where the burial sites were”.

Ramadan’s funeral was attended by Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar, Turkish ambassador in Nicosia Ali Murat Basceri, and the CMP’s Turkish Cypriot member Hakki Muftuzade, among others.