text:  BBC World Service, and now, Witness History. I'm Maria Margaronis, taking you back 50 years to the moment when the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus was split in two. In July 1974, Bekir Özgün, a Turkish Cypriot from the village of Putamya, had just come home from studying abroad. On the 15th of July, I was cutting hay with my father to our house in the village.