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Flag of the Turkish Football Federation - Image by Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
The flag of the Turkish Football Federation can be seen in front of the building of the Federation. The emblem can be seen on the Federation website.
Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
Flag of Beşiktaş Istanbul - Image by Ivan Sache & António Martins, after a photography taken by Dov Gutterman, 29 July 1999
The flag of Beşiktaş Istanbul is
horizontally divided black-white-black-white-black with the
national flag in canton (two-stripe wide).
It was hoisted side by side with the Turkish national flag, the
UEFA flag, the Turkish
Football Federation flag and the Hapoel Haifa (Israel) flag during a
European Cup match between Beşiktaş and Hapoel.
Dov Gutterman, 29 July 1999
Beşiktaş is the only Turkish club which is entitled to have the Turkish flag on its emblem, because it once represented Turkey against the Greek national team.
Jarig Bakker, 2 August 1999
Flag of Fenerbahçe Istanbul - Image by Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
This is an unoffical flag of Fenerbahçe Sport Club, based on fan flags shown on a supporters' website (page no longer online). The emblem of the club can be seen on the club official website (page no longer online), which gives the color specification for the emblem and the flag:
Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
Flag of Galatasaray Istanbul - Image by Onur Özgün, 27 June 2003
Ayetullah Emin was a student at the Galatasaray High School, a
very ancient school in which an important proportion of the lectures
were given in French. Emin used a complicated mathematical formula to
draw the emblem. The Ottoman letters Gayin - Sin were
changed to Latin letters G - S in 1926.
The football club of Galatasaray, founded within the High School
in 1905, adopted Emin's emblem charged with the foundation year of
the club in 1923.
Source: Galatasaray High School website
Ivan Sache, 27 June 2003
This flag is also the flag of Galatasaray University, founded by cooperation of the Turkish and French governments, as well as the High School (Lycée) of Galatasaray. They both use the same flag as the Galatasaray Football Club.
Onur Özgün, 3 July 2004
Variant of the flag of Galatasaray Istanbul - Image by António Martins, 4 July 2004
Yahoo! News showed a picture with Flavio Conceição displaying his new club Galatasaray's flag. The flag shown seems to have only two stripes, instead of the four of the official flag.
James Dignan, 1 July 2004
Today, while I was sitting on the sidewalk across the street from my building, a man pedaled by on a special bicycle designed for disabled people. His vehicle was flying a small Turkish flag on the front, and a larger Turkish flag on the back, along with a similarly sized flag I didn't recognize. I ran after him; he told me he was indeed Turkish, and I inquired about the other flag. He replied that it was a football flag. I found it's a variant of the Galatasaray Istanbul flag. The differences with the official flag are:
Lewis Nowitz, 24 April 2004
Flag of Trabzonspor - Image by Onur Özgün, 27 August 2001
The football team of the city of Trabzon is the fourth team that
had been national champion until today, with
Galatasaray, Fenerbahçe and
Beşiktaş.
The colors of the flag are defined on the
offical club
website (page no longer available) as follows:
Onur Özgün, 27 August 2001