This is a list of flags used historically and currently by the Turkish people and the Turkish authorities.

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National flags

Flag Date Use Description
1936–presentFlag of Turkey18th-century design officially adopted in 1844. The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century. The white star and crescent moon on red as the flag of the Ottoman Empire was introduced 1844.[1]

After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new administrative regime maintained the last flag of the Ottoman Empire. Proportional standardizations were introduced in the Turkish Flag Law of 1936.[2]

1984–presentFlag of Northern CyprusThe Flag of the Northern Cyprus has a red crescent and star on a white background and two stripes on the neck.[3]

Presidential flags

Flag Date Use Description
1923–presentPresidential standard of the president of Turkey.A presidential seal, which is composed of a sun with 8 long and 8 short rays surrounded by 16 stars. The sun represents the infinity of Turkey and the 16 stars represent the 16 symbolizing the 16 Great Turkic Empires in history.[4] The 16 stars are aligned with a 22.5 degree angle, equidistantly surrounding the sun. One edge of each star points to the center of the sun.[5]
1984-1989Presidential standard of the president of Northern Cyprus.Apart from the drawstring edge the other three edges is framed with gold latten. On the white ground, the star and crescent has vermilion color and has two lines lengthwise. On the left corner, there are two gold latten stars one within the other and which is separated by the vermilion colored ground.[6]

Military flags

Turkish Armed Forces

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentStandard of the Chief of the Turkish General Staff.[7]
?-present Regimental standard Regimental standard of Turkey, with this specific one being the standard of the 39th Mechanized Infantry Brigade

Turkish Land Forces

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the commander of the Turkish Land Forces.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Turkish Land Forces Army Command.[7]
?-present Corps command flag, Logistics command flag, Training and Doctrine command flag
?-present Division command flag, Military academy command flag, Training and Doctrine School command flag and Training Center command flag
?-present Class School and Training Center command flag
?-present Regimental command flag, Brigade Deputy Commander flag and Garrison Commander flag
?-present Land Forces Command Air Support Continental Group command flag
?-present Battalion command flag
?-present Brigade Support Troops command flag
?-present Army Aviation School command flag
?-present Army Aviation command flag
?-present Army Aviation Regiment command flag

Turkish Naval Forces

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the Grand admiral.[7]
1904–present[8]Flag of the commander of the Turkish Naval Forces.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Admiral.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Vice Admiral.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Rear Admiral.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Rear Admiral (LH).[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Commodore.[7]
?-present Pennant of the Group Commander
 ?–presentFlag of the Captain.[7]
?-present Battalion command flag

Turkish Air Force

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the commander of the Turkish Air Force.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Combat Air Force and Air Missile Defense Command.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Lieutenant-General.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Major General.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Brigadier-General.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Regiment Command.[7]
 ?–presentFlag of the Battalion-Fleet Command.[7]
?-present Air Force Support Continental command flag
?-present Air Force Support Continental command pennant

Gendarmerie General Command

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the Gendarmerie General Command

Coast Guard Command

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the Coast Guard Command

Governmental flags

Flag Date Use Description
 ?–presentFlag of the General Directorate of Customs Protection of Turkey[9]
 ?–presentFlag of the Customs Administration of Turkey
 ?–presentFlag of the General Directorate of Health for Borders and Coasts
 ?–presentFlag of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey
 ?–presentFlag of the Turkish Red Crescent

Historical flags

Flag Date Use Description
1844–1922Flag of the Ottoman EmpireThe star and crescent flag of the Ottoman Empire, an early 19th-century design officially adopted in 1844.
Late 19th century–early 20th centuryImperial standard of the Ottoman sultan
Late 19th century–early 20th centuryNaval standard of the Ottoman sultanIt is the ensign which was raised when Abdul Hamid II visited the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. A star and crescent and sun is located in the center of red fabric.[10]
1913Flag of the Provisional Government of Western Thrace[11]
1918–1919Flag of the Provisional National Government of the Southwestern Caucasus
1922–1924Caliphate standard of Abdulmejid II.[12]The standard consisted of a green flag with a star and crescent in white on a red oval background within a rayed ornament, all in white.
1938–1939Flag of Hatay State

Other flags

Flag Date Use Description
1922–presentFlag of the Autocephalous Turkish Orthodox Patriarchate
1994–presentFlag of TurkmeneliThe flag of Turkmeneli represents the Iraqi Turkmens. It consists of a cyan background symbolizing the sky, with two horizontal white stripes running the width of the flag surrounding the white star and crescent which is positioned in the center of the flag.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Raw, Dr Laurence (2013-09-18). The Silk Road of Adaptation: Transformations across Disciplines and Cultures. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 42. ISBN 9781443852890.
  2. ↑ "Türk Bayrağı Kanunu" [Law on Turkish Flag] (PDF). Tbmm.gov.tr. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "KKTC Bayrağı" (in Turkish). Presidency of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
  4. ↑ "Seal". Presidency of The Republic Of Türkiye.
  5. ↑ "Flag Of Office". Presidency of The Republic Of Türkiye.
  6. ↑ "Presidential Flag". Presidency of the Republic of Northern Cyprus.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 "KOMUTANLIK FORSLARI" (in Turkish). Turkish Armed Forces.
  8. ↑ "Ensign (Commander in Chief)".
  9. ↑ "Kurumsal Logolar" (in Turkish). 9 November 2019.
  10. ↑ "The Ensign of the Battlecruiser Hamidiye".
  11. ↑ YUSUF HALAÇOĞLU & HALİT EREN (1988–2016). "BATI TRAKYA Karadeniz, Marmara ve Ege denizleriyle Balkan-Rodop dağ silsilesi arasında kalan ve Trakya adı verilen arazi parçasının batı kesimi.". TDV Encyclopedia of Islam (44+2 vols.) (in Turkish). Istanbul: Turkiye Diyanet Foundation, Centre for Islamic Studies.
  12. ↑ "The Caliphate Ensign of the Yacht Söğütlü".
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