Flag of Turkey
The flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent. The flag is often called al bayrak, and is referred to as al sancak in the Turkish national anthem. The current design of the Turkish flag is directly derived from the late Ottoman flag, which had been adopted in the late 18th century and acquired its final form in 1844. The measures, geometric proportions, and exact tone of red of the flag of Turkey were legally standardized with the Turkish Flag Law on 29 May 1936.
History
The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century. The white star and crescent moon on red as the flag of the Ottoman Empire was introduced 1844.After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new state maintained the last flag of the Ottoman Empire. Proportional standardizations were introduced in the Turkish Flag Law of 1936.
Legendary origins
In accounting for the crescent and star symbol, the Ottomans sometimes referred to a legendary dream of the eponymous founder of the Ottoman house, Osman I, in which he is reported to have seen a moon rising from the breast of a qadi whose daughter he sought to marry. "When full, it descended into his own breast. Then from his loins there sprang a tree, which as it grew came to cover the whole world with the shadow of its green and beautiful branches." Beneath it Osman saw the world spread out before him, surmounted by the crescent.Legal basis
Fundamentals of the Turkish flag were laid down by Turkish Flag Law No. 2994 on 29 May 1936 during the Republic period of Turkey. Turkish Flag Regulation No. 2/7175 dated 28 July 1937, and Supplementary Regulation No. 11604/2 dated 29 July 1939, were enacted to describe how the flag law would be implemented. The Turkish Flag Law No. 2893 dated 22 September 1983, and Published in the Official Gazette on 24 September 1983, was promulgated six months after its publication. According to Article 9 of Law No. 2893, a statute including the fundamentals of the implementation was also published.Construction
Colors
In an RGB color space, the red color of the Turkish flag is composed of 89% red, 3.9% green, and 9% blue. In a CMYK color space, it is composed of 0% cyan, 95.6% magenta, 89.9% yellow and 11% black. It has a hue angle of 356.4 degrees, a saturation of 91.6%, and a lightness of 46.5%. The red color on the Turkish flag is vivid red and this color can be obtained by blending #FF142E with #C70000. The closest websafe color is: #d11919.The colors approximation is listed below:
Colors scheme | Red | White |
| RGB | 227-10-23 | 255-255-255 |
| Hexadecimal | #E30A17 | #FFFFFF |
| CMYK | 0, 96, 90, 11 | 0, 0, 0, 0 |
Dimensions
The specification below, given by Turkish Flag Law, implies that the distance between the inner circle of the crescent and a vertical line connecting the two pointed ends of the crescent is G = 0.34875 G; thus, the left point of the star intrudes about 0.0154 G beyond that line.| Letter | Measure | Length |
| G | Width | |
| A | Distance between the centre of the outer crescent and the seam of the white band | G |
| B | Diameter of the circle around the star | G |
| C | Distance between the centres of the inner and outer circles of the crescent | G |
| D | Diameter of the inner circle of the crescent | G |
| E | Distance between the inner circle of the crescent and the circle around the star | G |
| F | Diameter of the outer circle of the crescent | G |
| L | Length | G |
| M | Width of the white hem at the hoist | G |