Turkey Flag

How to identify it

A red field with a white crescent and a single five-pointed star, both placed toward the flagpole side and with no white disc behind them.

Design and construction

Adoption and legal status

The present geometry is governed by Flag Law No. 2893 of 1983, while the crescent-and-star form descends from an Ottoman flag adopted in 1844.

History of the design

The law specifies the construction but assigns no official symbolic meaning to the red field, crescent or star.

Similar flags

Compare the details that separate these designs.

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  Tunisia

  Tunisia places a red crescent and star inside a white disc; Turkey uses a white crescent and star directly on the red field.

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