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In 1844, a version of this flag, with a five-pointed star, was officially adopted as the Ottoman national flag. The decision to adopt a national flag was part of the Tanzimat reforms which aimed to modernize the Ottoman state in line with the laws and norms of contemporary European states and institutions.
Flag Date Use Description 1936–present: Flag of Turkey [1]: 18th-century design officially adopted in 1844. The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century.
The crescent and star are from the 19th-century Ottoman flag (1844–1923) which also forms the basis of the present-day Turkish flag. Following the abolition of the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, the Ottoman coat of arms was no longer used and the crescent and star became Turkey's de facto national emblem. In the national identity cards of the ...
This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.The specific problem is: The tables contain many flags that were only ever proposals or are anachronistic.
Derivated from User:Kerem Özcan's Ottoman Flag.svg and Ottoman flag alternative 2.svg. The star shape was slightly updated by DsMurat and the color of the flag was readjusted by Niusereset in the newer versions, as seen in the file history.
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag [2] (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white crescent and star on its emblem, It’s based on the 18th-century Ottoman Empire flag. [3] The flag is often called "the red flag" (al bayrak), and is referred to as "the red banner" (al sancak) in the Turkish national anthem ...
The flag consists of the plain cross version of the Greek national flag, with the upper half field in the red of the Ottoman flag. 1834–1912 Princely flag of the autonomous Principality of Samos, tributary to the Ottoman Empire. The flag consists of a white triangle on blue background, bearing a red Greek cross in the centre. 1898–1908
The factual accuracy of this flag is disputed. The sources are likely unreliable, the first is a blog containing several Turkic flags, several of them fictitious and unsourced. The second is an image on Flickr claiming to be the flag of the Ottoman Empire in 1517, lacking any source.