John Smith’s Flag Mountain records a vast flag, the insignia of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, painted onto the side of the Kyrenia mountains overlooking Nicosia, the divided capital of the former island nation. The flag, situated in what is officially understood under international law to be 'Turkish occupied' northern Cyprus, is accompanied by the legend 'Ne mutlu Türküm diyene' ('How happy is he who can say “I am a Turk”'). The statement, a quote from the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, is clearly legible from the south of the city and its surrounding countryside. Deliberately provocative, the flag was produced by refugees from the southern village of Tokhni as a memorial to the 84 male, moslem members of their community aged between 13 and 74, who were murdered by a right-wing militia (allied with the Greek military dictatorship). The massacre was said to have been in retaliation to the Turkish invasion of the north of the island earlier in 1974.