According to the book
Northern Cyprus: A Traveller's Guide, by Eileen Davey, published in 1993 in Britain, when the Ottoman Empire conquered Cyprus in 1571 "Cyprus at first welcomed the Turks, who suppressed the hated Latin church and abolished the feudal system." Conditions deteriorated later; she mentions a general massacre of Christians following the Greek revolt in Greece of 1821, but conditions began to improve later in the 19th century even before Britain took over the island.
Bernard McDonagh's Blue Guide: Turkey: The Aegean and Mediterranean Coasts, published in 1989, on page 94 quotes Henry Stubbe, Under-Library-Keeper at the Bodleian, Oxford, in the mid-17th century, asserting that "it is indeed more the interest of the princes and nobles than of the people which at present keeps all Europe from submitting to the Turks."
I don't think either Davey or McDonagh is a Turk.
It is nice to see such well educated people on this forum.