File:Flag of Turkey.svg

Turkish Flag Law (Türk Bayrağı Kanunu), Law nr. 2893 of 22 September 1983. Text (in Turkish) at the website of the Turkish Historical Society (Türk Tarih Kurumu)

Author

David Benbennick (original author)

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The protection period continues during the lifetime of the author of the work and for 70 years after his death.
For works published after the death of their author, the protection period is 70 years after the date of death.
In cases stated in the first paragraph of Article 12, the protection period is 70 years from the date that the work is published, unless the author of the work discloses his name before the expiry of this period.
In case the author of the work is a legal person, the protection period is 70 years from the date that the work is published.

This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

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Presidential flag
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Construction sheet
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Historical flag
Flag of the Ottoman Empire
(from 1844)

Other versions
animated version

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Source code

SVG code

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Colours scheme	Red	White
RGB	227-10-23	255-255-255
Hexadecimal	#E30A17	#FFFFFF
CMYK	0, 96, 90, 11	0, 0, 0, 0

This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 18 December 2006. It was captioned as follows:

English: Flag of Turkey.

Other languages:

Čeština: Turecká vlajka

Cymraeg: Baner Twrci.

Dansk: Tyrkiets flag.

Deutsch: Flagge der Türkei

English: Flag of Turkey.

Español: La bandera de Turquía.

Esperanto: Flago de Turkio

Français : Drapeau de la Turquie.

Galego: Bandeira de Turquía

Hrvatski: Zastava Turske.

Italiano: Bandiera della Turchia.

Magyar: Törökország zászlaja

Nederlands: De Turkse vlag.

Polski: Flaga Turcji.

Português: A bandeira da Turquia.

Română: Steagul republicii Turcia.

Sicilianu: Bannera dâ Turchìa.

Slovenčina: Turecká vlajka

Svenska: Den turkiska flaggan.

Türkçe: Türkiye Bayrağı.

Русский: Флаг Турции

한국어: 터키의 국기

日本語：トルコの国旗

中文：土耳其国旗

العربية : علم تركيا.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	08:51, 8 August 2021	1,200 × 800 (324 bytes)	Jdx	Per request on COM:AN/B
	18:14, 19 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (397 bytes)	Zscout370	Reverted to version as of 17:40, 7 May 2012 see http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Turkey_%28alternate%29.svg
	14:30, 19 May 2012	1,240 × 800 (623 bytes)	Achim1999	crescent and star shifted 2.083% to the left! And added the small while hem at left (see URL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Turkey#Construction for this "common rendering mistake")
	17:40, 7 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (397 bytes)	Nevit	Reverted to version as of 05:16, 6 May 2012 Latest nice version
	18:27, 6 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (502 bytes)	Daniel Callegaro	Reverted to version as of 14:51, 4 May 2012
	05:16, 6 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (397 bytes)	AnonMoos	some kind of strange version corruption, re-uploading from my hard drive...
	05:13, 6 May 2012	60 × 60 (9 KB)	AnonMoos	Reverted to version as of 09:47, 6 April 2011
	14:51, 4 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (502 bytes)	ElMa-sa	Reverted to version as of 06:44, 2 April 2011
	10:02, 4 May 2012	1,026 × 684 (969 bytes)	Newncarts	tukey
	09:24, 4 May 2012	1,200 × 800 (397 bytes)	Newncarts	scream tukey