Presidential Seal of Turkey
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| Presidential Seal of Turkey | |
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| Armiger | President of Turkey |
| Adopted | 1923 |
| Escutcheon | A red circle with a large 16-pointed star (the Sun) in the center, which is surrounded by 16 five-pointed stars. |
The Presidential Seal of Turkey is the official seal of the President of Turkey.
It has a large 16-pointed star (the Sun, symbolizing the Republic of Turkey) in the center, which is surrounded by 16 five-pointed stars, symbolizing the 16 Great Turkish Empires in history.[1]
The roots of the Presidential Seal and Presidential Flag of Turkey go back to September 1922, when a similar flag was used on the automobile that took Mustafa Kemal Atatürk to İzmir during the final days of the Turkish War of Independence.[1] This flag is currently on display at the Anıtkabir Museum in Ankara.[1] The Presidential Flag's characteristics and proportions were legalized with the Sancak Talimatnamesi law on October 22, 1925.[1] According to this law, the Presidential Seal's dimensions were defined as "70cm x 70cm", while the Sun in the center (which looked similar to the current one) was a 20-pointed star containing 10 sharp-edged and 10 oval-edged light rays.[1] The "70cm x 70cm" dimensions of the Presidential Seal were maintained in the Turkish Flag Law of May 29, 1936; but were later reduced to "30cm x 30cm" with a new legal amendment that was made on September 14, 1937.[1] The number of the light rays in the Sun of the Presidential Seal were reduced to 16 (8 long and 8 short light rays, all of them sharp-edged) in order to symbolize the 16 Turkic states in history, with another legal amendment on February 18, 1978.[1] The seal and flag took their current shape and proportions with the final legal amendment on January 25, 1985.[1]
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Historical Turkic states and empires on the Presidential Seal of Turkey[edit]
Turks had founded a series of short-lived states and empires in the history. In the seal each of these 16 historical Turkic states are represented by a star. According to the list the Ottoman Empire is the 16th star and the Republic of Turkey is the large star at the center.
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See also[edit]
- President of Turkey
- List of Presidents of Turkey
- Çankaya Köşkü, the official residence of the President of Turkey