The cemetery is home to 168 unidentified graves. Under the “500-day campaign” to accelerate the search, recovery and identification of fallen soldiers’ remains, DNA samples were collected from the graves for forensic analysis.

Before sample collection began, the teams surveyed and marked graves lacking identification, standardised data on headstones and in the management software system for cross-checking, and assigned unified identification codes.

The entire process of sample collection, preservation, handover and transport, and digitisation of information on the martyrs’ graves was carried out in line with technical procedures, ensuring strict, scientific and fully secure handling with no room for error.