It's hard to imagine a modem city of tens of thousands being evacuated in the wake of a hostile army's invasion.
What's holding back this city from being resettled by it's rightful owners?
What's holding back this city from being resettled by it's rightful owners?
Its "rightful owners" are greek cypriots. During the invasion of Cyprus in 1974 it became part of the turkic-occupied sector, but rather than resettle it Turkey set it aside as a bargaining chip assuming negotiations would begin soon.
So what's holding back this city from being resettled is that it's a forbidden zone regularly checked on by military patrols.
These buildings have owners, who can produce those deeds, yet the owners are denied ownership. This did not happen (and is still happening up to this day) through a purchase or another legal act, but through violence, so I call it robbery. This is what it is.
The fact that it's caught in the middle of a conflict between two armed groups who hate each other with an intensity that's almost impossible to grasp?
Greeks and Turks have a lot of nasty history with each other. If you don't want to dig into all of it, just go read the Wikipedia article on the history of Cyprus.