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Description

Date

1844 (Ottoman flag); 1936 (standardised).

Source

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)

Permission
(Reusing this file)

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