Turkey: Customs flags

Last modified: 2007-02-10 by ivan sache
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Customs administration

Flag of the customs administration - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

The flag fo the customs administration is rectangular, red with a white orle and a white cresent and star.

Sources: Album des Pavillons [pay00] - Znamierowski [zna99] - Pedersen (1971) [ped71]

Flag of the customs administration, Flaggenbuch (1939) version - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] shows a similar flag, but with the orle green instead of white and placed much closer to the border of the flag.

Flag of the customs administration, National Geographic (1917) version - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

In National Geographic (1917) [gmc17], the flag was already shown with a white orle, though in a geometric disposition similar to Flaggenbuch.

Flag of the customs administration, Flaggenbuch (1926) version - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

Flaggenbuch (1926) [d9e26] shows the flag in proportion 1:2, red with a white crescent and star and with a white orle. The flag has an unusual ratio. Furthermore the crescent and star are quite different frome those used for the national and presidential flags in the same source. This was well before time that national flag was strictly technically regulated (1936).

Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

Customs inspection

Flag of the customs inspection, - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2003

The flag of the customs inspection is rectangular (2:3), horizontally divided red-white, with a thick green border. The green border is as wide as any of the stripes, so that overall proportion is (1/1/1/1):(1/4/1).

Sources: Album des Pavillons [pay00] - Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92]

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003