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![[Maritime police flag]](../images/t/tr~pol.gif)
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 flag]](../images/t/tr-pol.gif)
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 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
