The tenth volume of the Cyprus File was published on Friday, the House of Representatives announced.
The Cyprus File is a joint initiative of the Parliaments of Greece and Cyprus and is being implemented in the framework of the Cooperation Protocol for Access to the Material of the Hellenic Parliament’s Investigative Committee into the Cyprus File, signed by the Parliaments of Cyprus and Greece in January 2016.
The Files contain testimonial material collected by the Investigative Committee to collect and evaluate evidence on the Greek military coup in Cyprus and the Turkish invasion that followed days after.
The tenth volume, which is currently being printed and will soon be available in bookshops, includes minutes of the Investigative committee held between 19-26 November 1986 during which a Ch. Palainis, G. Matatsis, A. Perdikis, E. Glentzes, M. Pilichos and D. Papapostolou testified.
As noted in the foreword of the volume by Constantinos Tasoulas, Speaker of the Hellenic Parliament and Annita Demetriou, President of the House of Representatives, the voluminous material, consisting of 139 volumes, contains testimonies of the protagonists, the responsible individuals, and all those who directly or indirectly participated or were involved in the coup against the then President of the Republic of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios III, as well as all those whose actions were linked to the events of the Turkish invasion that followed.
Tasoulas and Demetriou underline the material published does not assign institutional or ultimate accountability.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974 when Turkish troops invaded and occupied the island’s northern third.
Source: Cyprus News Agency