Turkey: Law on the flag

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On this page:

• Laws on the flag
• Current law on the flag
  • Purpose
  • Shape and Construction of the Flag
  • Hoisting and Lowering the Flag
  • Flying the Flag at Half Staff
  • Saluting the Flag
  • Places that can be covered with the Flag
  • Prohibitions
  • Sanctions
  • Charter
  • Abrogated Law
  • Validity
  • Enforcement
• Cases of infringement of the law on the flag

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• Turkey

Laws on the flag

The fundamentals of the Turkish Flag were laid down by the Turkish Flag Law No. 2994 of May 29, 1936 (now abrogated).

The Turkish Flag Regulation No. 2/7175 dated July 28, 1937, and Supplementary Regulation No. 11604/2 dated July 29, 1939, were enacted to describe how the flag law would be implemented.

The Turkish Flag Law No. 2893 dated September 22, 1983, and published in the Official Gazette on September 24, 1983, was promulgated six months after its publication. According to Article 9 of Law No. 2893, a statute including the fundamentals of the implementation of that law was also published.

Dov Gutterman, 4 September 1999

Current law on the flag

Law #2893, adopted September 22, 1983, published in the Official Gazette September 24, 1983 No 18171, Series 5 Volume 22, p. 599

Purpose

• Article 1 - The purpose of this Law is to identify the principles and procedures about shape, construction and protection of the Turkish flag.

  Shape and Construction of the Flag

• Article 2 - The Turkish flag shall be a red flag with a white moon - star which is in the shape and proportions shown in the attached table. The standards, the fabric and material of the making of the flag and special flags (symbolic flags, special signs, pennant, ship's pennant and official flag) are shown in the charter.

  Hoisting and Lowering the Flag

• Article 3 - Flag shall be hoisted on public associations and foundations and their abroad representatives, sea vehicles of public foundations, real and judicial persons. It shall be hoisted on vehicles of the authorities in and out of the country.
  Hoisting and lowering of the flag shall be done with ceremony. Making of the ceremony in appropriate way shall be under the responsability of the authorized chief in that place.
  The Turkish flag shall be hoisted on national holidays and general holidays, starting from holiday start and ending in the sunset of the end of the holiday. (Note: A recent modification of the law changed this rule. The flag shall now be hoisted on the official buildings all the time.)
  Permanent hoisting of the flag, the closed places in which the flag shall be placed, the places where the flag shall b