Turkey: Police flags

Last modified: 2008-12-06 by ivan sache
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• Maritime police
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Maritime police

Maritime police flag - Image by Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

Themaritime police flag is triangular, in ratio 2:3, red with the word POLİS written horizontally in white letters.

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

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

Police on land

Crampton [cra90f] describes the police flag as: "Red with a large white-rayed star containing a red oval, with the crescent and star in white."
Lupant [lup95a] shows a similar flag, but the field of the flag is diagonally divided red and white. Znamierowski [zna99] show this flag as hoisted over police stations.

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

A photograph published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taken at a dinner given for the three German former hostages of the PKK by the Governor of the Turkish Province of Ağri, shows a red and white flag with a seal in the middle with the word "Polis". There are further lettering "AǦR..." on the top of the flag, which may be the police flag of Ağri.

Jean-Patrick Fischer, 21 July 2008