Word: turkishly
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...American-built transports dropping squad after squad of paratroopers. The brown parachutes stood out brightly against the clear blue morning sky as the troopers dropped gracefully onto the plain north of Nicosia. As soon as they hit ground, they began to assemble and move out. Whenever they encountered Turkish Cypriots, the paratroopers were wildly cheered...
They urged the civilians to take shelter inside the Turkish towns...
Early in the day, Greek Cypriot soldiers carried a .50-cal. machine gun up to the roof of the four-story hotel. Other Greek soldiers took up positions in rooms on the top floor, which gave them a commanding view of the Turkish area...
...heavy shell, possibly a bazooka, hit the northeast corner of the building, killing one Greek Cypriot soldier and fatally wounding a second. The Turks continued to shell the hotel roof intermittently. None of the hundreds of journalists and guests crowding into the lower floors were injured by the Turkish firing. Later, when the Greeks removed their guns from the hotel and withdrew to the patio, they were loudly cheered by the much relieved newsmen and guests...
After the Crusades, during which Richard Coeur-de-Lion conquered the island on his way to the Holy Land, Cyprus fell to the Franks and then to the Venetians. In 1570 the Turks arrived, carrying the standard of the Ottoman Empire. From the start, the Turkish rulers demonstrated a ferocity that the inhabitants of Cyprus never forgot. After capturing the city of Famagusta in 1571, the Turks publicly flayed to death the commander of the defending troops, then stuffed his skin with straw and paraded it around the island. About 30,000 Turkish soldiers were granted land on Cyprus, encouraging...