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...only man that e 'er I knew Who did not make me almost spew Was Fuseli; and he was both a Turk...
Fuseli was actually neither Turk nor Jew, but Swiss; he was born Johann Heinrich Fiissli in Zurich in 1741, the son of a portrait painter. By 1825, when he died, he had become one of the most distinguished exiles in English art history; he was even buried next to Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. Paul's. Last week, to mark the 150th anniversary of his death, a show of more than 200 Fuselis-oils, engravings and drawings-opened at London's Tate Gallery...
...description is stark and real, unlike his impressionistic comments on the Ministry. He evokes the personality of a village Turk, Tsopan, with similar interest and detail--even remembering that the man offered his guests coffee two at a time, because he only owned one pair of demitasses...
...Everything is in an absolute shambles," said Stellios Garanis, head of the Cyprus Employers Federation. Approximately one-third of the Greek population-about 180,000 people-had fled their homes in terror of the advancing Turks and congregated in makeshift refugee camps in the Greek-controlled part of the island south of a line extending from Lefka through Nicosia to Famagusta. Twenty thousand Cypriot Turks -about one-sixth of the native Turkish population-sought similar haven with the Turkish army in the northern sector. Most refugees, both Greek and Turk, had left their homes with little more than the clothes...
Withering Barrage. On the ground, Turk tanks rolled out of the Turkish section of the city they had occupied since the July 20 invasion and thrust toward the suburb of Mia Milea, astride the road to Famagusta 35 miles to the east. A withering barrage of mortar and artillery fire preceded the tanks, and the native Greek forces, outgunned and outmanned, were unable to slow their advance. By early afternoon, the Turks were almost halfway to Famagusta, the island's principal port, its third largest (pop. 43,600) city and the center of its usually booming tourist industry...