Flag of Turkey
Its colour palette includes red and white.
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Turkey
Flag facts
Information about the flag’s design, colours and proportions.
- Proportion
- 2:3 height: width
Flag design
- Layout
- Plain field
- Symbols
- Crescent – Centre and Star – Centre
- Colours
- Red and white
Sources
- Proportion: Türk Tarih Kurumu – Türk Bayrağı Kanunu No. 2893
What do the crescent and star on Turkey's flag mean?
Turkey's flag has a white crescent and five-pointed star on a red field. The crescent and star belong to Ottoman flag tradition and to the longer continuity of Turkish state symbolism. They are also often associated with Islamic imagery, but their place on this flag is specifically rooted in Ottoman and Turkish history.
Many legends connect the red field with battle and sacrifice. These are symbolic stories rather than a single official explanation. The republic retained the emblem, and the flag's exact form was defined by law during the twentieth century.
Country facts
- Type
- Country
- Name
- Turkey
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Ankara
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-2
- TR
- ISO 3166-1 alpha-3
- TUR
- ISO 3166-1 numeric
- 792
- Top-level domain
- .tr
- Area
- 780,580 km²
- Population
- 85,878,556 (2025)
- Currency
- TRY
- Calling code
- +90
Flags with a similar layout
These flags come from the same region and share one or more design characteristics.
Historical flags: Turkey (1844–)
Images are ordered by the years listed in the collection. A listed year may not be the flag’s official adoption year.
About historical flags
Vexilla's historical flag collection includes former flags associated with present-day countries and territories, as well as flags of states, empires, and other authorities that historically governed them.
A flag's inclusion in a country's historical collection does not necessarily mean that the country was independent at the time or that the flag was its own national flag.
The years shown are based on historical records in the dataset and do not always indicate the date of official adoption. The collection is not exhaustive, and historical usage, territorial coverage, and interpretations may vary.
Neighbouring countries and their flags
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