{"title":"Magosa","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"cyprus-turkish-invasion-sahin-line-drawn-by-force-of-turkish-arms-hayat-1974-map-p-6-112554","title":"Cyprus—Turkish invasion—Şahin Line—drawn by force of Turkish arms—Hayat 1974 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eTürk süngüsüyle çizilen Şahin Hattı [The Şahin Line—drawn by force of Turkish arms]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished on 29 August 1974, only thirteen days after the ceasefire ending Turkey’s second offensive, this Turkish propaganda map of Cyprus celebrates the territorial gains of the July–August invasion. A bold red line cuts across the island beneath Hayat’s triumphalist title Türk süngüsüyle çizilen Şahin Hattı—‘The Şahin Line drawn by the Turkish bayonet’. Şahin Hattı, literally ‘Hawk Line’, was the planned limit of the Turkish advance: the line troops were intended to reach and secure during the second offensive of 14–16 August, rather than an existing international frontier. In an interview published in Milliyet on 21 August, Prime Minister Bülent Ecevit said the operation had reached the previously adopted line, with minor deviations dictated by military circumstances, and called it the Şahin Line rather than the press’s ‘Attila Line’. Hayat’s title thus celebrates a planned military objective being made a territorial reality by force of arms. This is an early popular cartographic depiction explicitly naming the Şahin Line, issued while the outcome of the fighting was still immediate news, rather than a later historical reconstruction. The resulting ceasefire positions underpinned the island’s wider de facto division. The name ‘Green Line’ itself was older, originating with the separation of the two communities in Nicosia in December 1963; the 1974 fighting produced the much wider territorial division associated with the island-wide Green Line. The UN buffer zone lies between opposing ceasefire lines and is not identical to Hayat’s single red line. District colours and place names provide the geographical framework, while a chronology follows events from July to 16 August. Familiar cities appear under Turkish names—Lefkoşa for Nicosia, Girne for Kyrenia and Magosa for Famagusta. Combining cartography, military reporting and the language of victory, the sheet records a distinctly Turkish perspective at the moment Cyprus’s de facto partition was taking shape.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891186523,"sku":"P-6-112554","price":115.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112554a.jpg?v=1791486040"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/magosa.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}