Turkey: Ministry of the Interior

Last modified: 2014-06-09 by ivan sache
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• Turakish National Police
• Maritime Police
• Municipal Police

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Turkish National Police

Police flag - Image by Jens Pattke, 28 November 2009

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] shows this flag as hoisted over police stations.

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

The German state television ZDF brings a TV series with detective pieces that play in Istanbul. The series was filmed at original locations, showing the police flag as reported by Crampton.

Jens Pattke, 28 November 2009

A photo published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taken at a dinner given for the three German former hostages of the PKK by the Governor of the Ağri Province, 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

Maritime Police

Flag of the Maritime Police - Image by Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

The flag of the Maritime Police is a red triangular flag, in proportions 2:3, charged with the word "POLİS" written horizontally in white letters. This flag is shown in Flaggenbuch (1939) [neu92] and Album desPavillons [pay00].

Željko Heimer, 17 April 2003

Municipal Police

Flag of the Municipal Police - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 26 April 2014

The Municipal Police (Zabıta, website) is currently regulated by Law No. 5,393 "on municipalities and municipal police services", last revised in 2005 - but was established earlier (the badge of the Istanbul Municipal police [website] bears the date "1996").

The flag of the Municipal Police seen on 24 April 2013 in Kuşadası is blue with the police's badge displayed in black and white in the middle. The flag is also used with the badge in full colours (photo, photo, photo).
The badge of the Municipal Police displays a white rising sun on a dark blue sky surrounded by a wreath of white leaves with dark blue lining. At the top of all is a lying red crescent with a five-pointed star pointing to the crescent, which is representing the Turkish Republic.