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)

Permission
(Reusing this file)

This work is in the public domain in Turkey because it has been expropriated as national heritage or its copyright has expired. Article 27 of the Turkish copyright law states:

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.

Heptagon

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

Other versions

Current flags
Presidential flag
State flag
Construction sheet
Flag in vertical format

Historical flag
Flag of the Ottoman Empire
(from 1844)

Other versions
animated version

SVG development

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This flag was created with a text editor.

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
09:23, 4 May 2012	60 × 60 (9 KB)	Newncarts	scream tukey
09:47, 6 April 2011	60 × 60 (9 KB)	AnonMoos	removing unneeded
06:44, 2 April 2011	1,200 × 800 (502 bytes)	Ahmadi~commonswiki	Simplified SVG-code, using only polygon, rect, circle
15:51, 28 February 2011	1,200 × 800 (370 bytes)	AnonMoos	symmetrizing crescent shape,simplifying SVG code
15:51, 28 February 2011	1,200 × 800 (370 bytes)	AnonMoos	symmetrizing crescent shape,simplifying SVG code
11:43, 25 September 2010	1,200 × 800 (1 KB)	The Emirr	The white border gets used on just flagstaff. And the crescent and the star have been one piece.
20:50, 25 August 2010	1,200 × 800 (764 bytes)	Lambiam	# Restored the white band at the left side (prescribed by the law). # Moved crescent over to the right by the width M (see the law) of that white band. # Moved star over slightly less so that the left point of the star has distance E (see the law) from th
18:48, 2 March 2010	1,200 × 800 (720 bytes)	Permjak	SVG code
23:34, 2 November 2009	1,026 × 684 (2 KB)	Nevit	Simplified paths
10:39, 6 November 2008	1,026 × 684 (959 bytes)	Turkish Flame~commonswiki	Reverted to version as of 19:13, 24 March 2006. See talk page.