In this office they can meet up, promote exhibitions, think out new ideas and realise business exchanges. They are hungry for international relations, or better this small country, being isolated for too long a time, is hungry for international relations when globalization proceeds at a very quick pace crushing those countries proceeding at a gentler pace. Therefore they resort to industrialisation as much as they can. Poetry has a strong social, romantic, sentimentalist and sometimes heroic value. Pop music has its big singers.
Craftsmen can consider themselves as artists.
Theatre is much loved by those people crowding the capital's auditoriums where especially local plays acted in English are played. The seven newspapers selling from 500 to 10,000 issues try to fill the gap with the other papers. Paintings are perhaps the most developed arts of the Turkish-Cypriots. The most celebrated artist is Ismet Tatar who has a stone art-gallery dating from 1600 somewhere in the mountains next to Girne. She is sweet and compliant.