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![[North Cyprus flag]](../images/c/cy-north.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer &
Ivan Sache
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The flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was adopted by Law n°15 of 1984, approved by the Assembly on the 7th of March 1984 and published in the Official Gazette on the 9th of March 1984.
Pascal Vagnat, 9 March 1999
This flag appears in the Flags of Aspirant Peoples chart [eba94], #34, with the following caption:
NORTH CYPRUS
Turkish Republic
Ivan Sache, 13 September 1999
by Zeljko Heimer
The construction sheet is the same as for the Turkish flag. The width of the two upper and lower white stripes, as well as the width of the upper and lower red stipes is equal to 1/10 of the width of the flag. This flag is the state flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. The national flag is the Turkish one.
Pascal Vagnat, 12 March 1999
![[Coat of arms of the TRNC]](../images/c/cy)trnc.gif)
by Onur
Özgün
The date on the coat of arms most probably indicates the foundation year of the country after operation of Turkish Military forces to the island and de facto loss of authority by the government of Republic of Cyprus.
Onur Özgün, 20 September 2001
Smith [smi82] shows a very similar coat of arms, also in black line-drawing only. The coat of arms is vertually a variation of the coat of arms of Cyprus, black and white and with added crescent and star and changed dates. In Smith, there are two dates in the coat of arms, 1960 inscribed below the dove in the shield (just as it is on the Cyprus coat of ar