Aug 16, 2026 · 2 min · 1 segments
William Turner, a British traveller in the early 1800s, left one of the more vivid foreign descriptions of Cyprus under Ottoman rule. He claimed that Turkish Cypriots practiced a more relaxed form of…
In the morning, the Russian consul and his wife came to visit me.
He was accompanied by the Greek priest whom I saw at his house.
I found him by far the most candid Greek ecclesiastic I have seen.
He told me that the Turks here are much more mild than in other parts of Turkey, many of them in private even eating pork, and all of them being very sociable and friendly to the Christians.
His administration is very strict, and keeps in good order the Turks who, as they drink very hard, would otherwise be very disorderly.
The Turkish women of Nicosia are, in general, pretty, but after seeing the rigour with which they are guarded at Constantinople, I was astonished to see the familiarity with which they entered the houses here, even of the Franks, divested of either cloak or veil.
They frequently throw a handkerchief loosely about the head to shade them from the sun, but none of them hide their face with scrupulous jealousy.
In the morning, the Russian consul and his wife came to visit me.
He was accompanied by the Greek priest whom I saw at his house.
I found him by far the most candid Greek ecclesiastic I have seen.
He told me that the Turks here are much more mild than in other parts of Turkey, many of them in private even eating pork, and all of them being very sociable and friendly to the Christians.
His administration is very strict, and keeps in good order the Turks who, as they drink very hard, would otherwise be very disorderly.
The Turkish women of Nicosia are, in general, pretty, but after seeing the rigour with which they are guarded at Constantinople, I was astonished to see the familiarity with which they entered the houses here, even of the Franks, divested of either cloak or veil.
They frequently throw a handkerchief loosely about the head to shade them from the sun, but none of them hide their face with scrupulous jealousy.
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