32 years after the division of Cyprus, Alexis Papachelas travels to the island to investigate the mystery surrounding the missing Greeks and Cypriots that remains to this day unsolved. Are there any living prisoners of war of the Turkish invasion of 1974, today?
In a quest for answers, a process has began since 1999, in which mass graves are being opened, bones are collected and DNA samples used as a verification method in order to let family and friends in Greece and Cyprus find out what happened to their loved ones. The team in charge of this investigation recounts on camera the difficulties and obstacles they faced in their search for truth
“The Files” talk to the agents of EYP (Greek Secret Service) who attempted to locate the whereabouts of living prisoners of war in Turkey. The key figures that conducted this investigation, Savas Kalenderidis and Basilis Giannopoulos, talk for the first time and reveal facts and figures that were kept well hidden for 32 years.
In Athens and Nicosia “The Files” search for the secret lists documenting the missing people and the truth behind the political games played for years. The team also visits the charnel house, where hope for hundreds of restless families lies.
Former Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktas talks to Alexis Papachelas, and admits on camera the mass executions of prisoners carried out by extremist Turkish Cypriots. He also clearly supports that there was never an investigation to identify and charge the executioners. In an extraordinary confession a man that came back from the inferno of Turkish Prisons, describes the tortures he had to endure.
Finally, Alexis Papachelas takes a close look at the story of Hristakis Loizos, the child that went missing in 1974 when he was 5 years old. This is the only case of a missing person that was investigated extensively by both the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The mother of Hristakis, Mirofora Loizou, describes the adventure she went through in her search for her son. “The Files” travel back to the Green Line as they are in search of Loizos. Last but not least, tonight on “The Files” Mr. Denktas admits that a few months after the 5 year old child went missing he had important information that he was still alive….
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