Nikolaos Uzunoglu and his family had to leave Turkey in 1974 in an environment of economic and political turmoil in which most non-Muslim communities faced injustices. The Uzunoglu family, originally from Cappadocia, then started living in Greece. He is now making trips back to Turkey in hopes of finding homes for his fellow Greeks in the country that they had to leave in the past under bitter circumstances. "If you'd asked me five years ago about this possibility, I'd say no. But it seems more likely now," said Uzunoglu, a university professor in Athens. Now 62, he has been heading an organization, the Ecumenical Federation of Constantinopolitans, which is an umbrella body for 26 local associations of Greeks who were forced to leave their homes in Istanbul. "If the authorities are not just making gestures and if there are incentives to come back, there are Greeks who would like to move to Turkey," he added in reference to Turkish officials' calls on minorities who left Turkey in the past due to mistreatment to return to the country. At the beginning of March, Deputy Prime Minister B