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The flag of the Turkish Football Federation can be seen in front of the building of the Federation. The emblem can be seen on the Federation website.
Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
by Ivan Sache &
António Martins
after a photography taken in situ by Dov Gutterman
The flag of Beşiktaş Istanbul is
horizontally divided black - white - black - white - black with the
national flag in canton (two-stripe wide).
It was seen side by side with the Turkish national flag, the
UEFA flag, the Turkish
Football Federation flag and Hapoel Haifa (Israel) flag during a
European Cup match between Besiktas and Hapoel.
Dov Gutterman, 29 July 1999
Beşiktaş is the only Turkish club which is entitled to have the Turkish flag on its emblem, because it once represented Turkey against the Greek national team.
Jarig Bakker, 2 August 1999
This is an unoffical flag of Fenerbahçe Sport Club, based on fan flags shown on a supporters' website. The emblem of the club can be seen on the club official website, which gives also the color specification for the emblem and the flag:
Onur Özgün, 25 August 2001
Ayetullah Emin was a student at the Galatasaray High School, a very ancient school in which an important proportion of the lectures were given in French. Emin used a complicated mathematical formula to draw the emblem. The Ottoman letters Gayin - Sin were changed to Latin letters G - S in 1926.
The football club of Galatasaray, founded within the High School in 1905, adopted Emin's emblem charged with the foundation year of the club in 1923.
Source: Galatasaray High School website
Ivan Sache, 27 June 2003
The football team of the city of Trabzon is the fourth team that
had been national champion until today, with
Galatasaray, Fenerbahce and
Besiktas.
The colors of the flag are defined on the
offical club
website as follows:
Onur Özgün, 27 August 2001