Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #e30a17
- #ffffff
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- star
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), features a white crescent and star in a red background on its emblem, based on the 18th-century flag of the Ottoman Empire.
Flag of Turkey on Wikipedia
- crescent
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), features a white crescent and star in a red background on its emblem, based on the 18th-century flag of the Ottoman Empire.
Flag of Turkey on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Adopted Ottoman design 1844; standardized 1936
The star and crescent of the late Ottoman Empire, kept by the republic, echoed by flags across the Muslim world.
Source: Flag of Turkey on Wikipedia.
Its days
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on 3 of them, with the sentence that says so.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Star & Crescent
Flags people genuinely mix up. Worth a second look.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Türkiye is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1200 × 800
Credit David Benbennick (original author)
From Flag of Turkey.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
