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Asia

Turkey

Ratio: 2:3 Adopted: June 5, 1936 Usage: National and Civil

The star and The emblems
crescent are both are always placed
common symbols slightly toward
of the Islamic the hoist
religion

One star point touches the invisible line that
joins the two horns of the crescent moon

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Turkey’s flag dates from 1844, the early 19th century it usually had
although similar red flags were the five seen today. In 1936, the
used as early as the 17th century national flag and all the other flags
within the Ottoman Empire. From used in Turkey today were fully
1920–1923, when Turkey became defined and specified.
a republic, all the emblems of the
Sultan were abolished and the flag A PAN-ISLAMIC SYMBOL
became the main emblem. The crescent and star has become an
emblem of the pan-Islamic movement
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THE CRESCENT AND STAR sponsored by Turkey in the late 19th
Using the crescent and star emblems century and these symbols are now
together is a relatively recent device, widely used on the flags and national
but the crescent on its own dates arms of Muslim countries.
back to the Middle Ages. It is a Turkey does not have a coat
symbol associated with Islam and of arms, but there are individual
also with Osman, the founder of flags for the President and senior
the Ottoman Empire. The star members of the Turkish navy.
first appeared on the flag in 1793. These also contain the traditional
Initially it had eight points, but by crescent and star.

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