Under the banner front page title “Come get your property”, Turkish Cypriot daily Afrika newspaper (31.07.14) reports that a Turkish Cypriot named Eray Ozer is looking for the Greek Cypriot owners of properties he had been granted by the breakaway regime in occupied Voni and Palekythro villages in order to return to them these properties without wanting anything for exchange.
The paper writes that this behavior should be an example for everyone and points out that Ozer is doing something that happens for the first time. Ozer was born in occupied Epiho village, where he possessed 60 donums of land [a land measure of about 1000 square meters] which he had inherited from his ancestors. In return for this land, which remained within the boundaries of a military zone and is used by the army for many years, Ozer’s family had been granted by the regime other land in occupied Voni and Palekythro villages. “Eray Ozer is looking for the real owners of these lands, the title deeds of which were given to him in 2004, in order to give them back without waiting for absolutely anything in return”, writes the paper.

Ozer visited Afrika yesterday holding the title deeds of the above-mentioned properties in his hands and said: “This property is not mine. It was taken by force from its real owners. I cannot reconcile with my honor leaving this property as inheritance to my children”.

Afrika’s editor-in-chief, Sener Levent reports in his column that Ozer is ready to return 4.5 donums in Voni and 9.25 donums in Palekythro.