"Rotaract Club of Alexandria Metropolitan
presents you the International project _ My Flag _
The idea of the project is to show the flag of every country
and what every color and symbol refer to.
So, we ask a rotaract club from Every country to submit their
flag photo with a small description of its colors and symbols in, and also the
historical changes that the flag passed through to know more about our Flags."
The flag of Turkey represents ‘The Freedom of Turkey’.
The flag of Turkey consists of a white crescent moon and a star on a red background. The flag is called Ay Yıldız (literally, moon star) or al sancak (red banner) in Turkish. The flag has a complex origin since it is an ancient design, and is practically identical to the last flag of the Ottoman Empire which was adopted in 1844, as part of the Tanzimat reforms. The geometric proportions of the flag were legally standardized with the Turkish Flag Law in 1936.
It’s been saying that the Flag of Turkey is formed in the event of the reflection of the crescent moon and a star on a pool of blood of Turkish warriors who died in the Battle of Kosovo on 28 July 1389.
One of the most popular legends regarding the Flag of Turkey is that, in a pool of blood of Turkish warriors, there was a reflection of the crescent moon and a star. There is other theories have been put forward regarding the possible location and context of this event, which include:
In the year 1071, after the Battle of Manzikert and the defeat of the Byzantine army, the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan was roaming the battlefield, where he saw the reflection of the crescent moon and a star on a pool of blood of Turkish warriors. After he saw this image, he decided that this would be the flag representing the Seljuk Turks.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Republic of Turkey, walking on a battlefield one night after the Turkish victory in the Battle of Sakarya during the Turkish War of Independence, saw the reflection of the star and crescent formation on a large pool of blood near the Sakarya River.
And there is some theories have been put forward regarding the symbolic mean of Flag of Turkey
The crescent moon represents ‘Islam’ and the star means ‘Turkishness’. And red colour represents ‘blood’.
The crescent moon and a star represents ‘Turkishness’ and And red colour represents’ homeland’
The crescent moon represents "renewning" and the star means ‘Turkishness’.
The crescent moon represents "God" the star means ‘The prophet of Islam’.
The star represents ‘democracy, egalitarianism and independence’and the crescent moon represents ‘Islam’.
