Capital

Ankara

Continent

Asia

Flag adopted

1936

Designer

Not individually credited

Türkiye

Colors and meaning

• Red #E30A17

  Historically linked to Ottoman military tradition, and, in a popular legend, blood reflected in a pool after a battle

Symbolism and history

A white crescent and star on a red field, a design with roots in the late Ottoman Empire, given its exact current geometric proportions by law only in 1936 under the early Turkish Republic.

Closest-looking flags

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  Tunisia

  Shares its red-field crescent-and-star design directly with Tunisia's flag and, in spirit, with Azerbaijan's, all tracing to Ottoman-era vexillology.

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  Azerbaijan

  Shares its red-field crescent-and-star design directly with Tunisia's flag and, in spirit, with Azerbaijan's, all tracing to Ottoman-era vexillology.

Further reading: Flag of Türkiye on Wikipedia