take abdullah cangil, one of those forced to give up his property in the south and move north. >> i was 24 years old when i came here, and now i am 67. >> reporter: cangil put a lot of work and money into the house. put in a pool, planted a grove of orange trees. it's where he raised his family. >> reporter: cangil believes without unification there's little future for the turkish minority on cyprus. >> reporter: if he has to move because of reunification, he says it will be hard but he's willing to make the sacrifice. chief turkish cypriot negotiator ozdil nami says whole towns may change hands in the remapping, but past mistakes won't be repeated. >> if there is going to be relocation of those, it's not going to be through forced eviction of any sort. so we are not going to have a refugee crisis. >> reporter: economics are another factor driving unification. under one unified federal government, all of cyprus could reopen trade with turkey and have access to the e.u. common market. and something else offers benefits for both communities: newly discovered deposits of natural gas off th