 After the violence of 1964, the family left their home in Botamia for good. Their old house in the village became the barn where Bekir and his father were taking their hay when they encountered those gunmen on the day of the Greek coup in July 1974. The gunmen were members of AOKB, a new guerrilla force set up and armed by the Athens Junta, and one of them said they were going to unite Cyprus with Greece.