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Flag of Northern Cyprus, the Glossary

The flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Bayrağı) is the national flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and is based on the flag of Turkey, with the colors reversed and two additional horizontal red stripes at the top and bottom.^[1]

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1984 establishments in Northern Cyprus
Culture of Northern Cyprus
Flags introduced in 1984
Flags of Northern Cyprus
Flags of states with limited recognition
Flags with star and crescent
Government of Northern Cyprus

Annan Plan

The Annan Plan, also known as the Cyprus reunification plan, was a United Nations proposal to resolve the Cyprus dispute.

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Antigoni Papadopoulou

Antigoni Papadopoulou (Greek: Αντιγόνη Παπαδοπούλου; née Pericleous (Greek: Περικλέους); born July 8, 1954) is a Greek Cypriot politician and chemist.

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İstiklal Marşı

"İstiklâl Marşı" is the national anthem of both the Republic of Turkey and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Flag of Northern Cyprus and İstiklal Marşı are culture of Northern Cyprus.

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Bülent Ecevit

Mustafa Bülent Ecevit (28 May 1925 – 5 November 2006) was a Turkish politician, statesman, poet, writer, scholar, and journalist, who served as the Prime Minister of Turkey four times between 1974 and 2002.

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CMYK color model

The CMYK color model (also known as process color, or four color) is a subtractive color model, based on the CMY color model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.

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Coat of arms of Cyprus

The coat of arms of Cyprus may refer to the national symbol used in the Republic of Cyprus.

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Conspiracy theory

A conspiracy theory is an explanation for an event or situation that asserts the existence of a conspiracy by powerful and sinister groups, often political in motivation, when other explanations are more probable.

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Constitution of Northern Cyprus

The Constitution of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti Anayasası) was prepared by the Constituent Assembly of Northern Cyprus after the declaration of independence on 15 November 1983, and was approved by the Turkish Cypriot electorate in a referendum on 5 May 1985 with a majority of 70.2% in favour. Flag of Northern Cyprus and Constitution of Northern Cyprus are government of Northern Cyprus.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Council of Ministers (Northern Cyprus)

The Council of Ministers (Bakanlar Kurulu) is the executive branch of the government of the unrecognized state Northern Cyprus, consisting of ministers. Flag of Northern Cyprus and Council of Ministers (Northern Cyprus) are government of Northern Cyprus.

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Cypriot intercommunal violence

Several distinct periods of Cypriot intercommunal violence involving the two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, marked mid-20th century Cyprus.

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Cyprus

Cyprus, officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

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Cyprus problem

The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot community which runs the Republic of Cyprus (de facto only comprising the south of the island since the events of 1974) and the Turkish Cypriot community in the north of the island, where troops of the Republic of Turkey are deployed.

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December 2016 Istanbul bombings

On the evening of 10 December 2016, two explosions caused by a car bombing and suicide bombing in Istanbul's Beşiktaş municipality killed 48 people and injured 166 others.

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Declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

The declaration of Independence of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus was a unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from the Republic of Cyprus by the Turkish Cypriot parliament on 15 November 1983.

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Demographics of Cyprus

The people of Cyprus are broadly divided into two main ethnic communities, Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots, who share many cultural traits but maintain distinct identities based on ethnicity, religion, language, and close ties with Greece and Turkey respectively.

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Emblems of Turkey

Turkey has no official national emblem, but the crescent and star (ay-yıldız) design from the national flag is in use on Turkish passports, Turkish identity cards and at the diplomatic missions of Turkey.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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European Commission

The European Commission (EC) is the primary executive arm of the European Union (EU).

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European Parliament

The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions.

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Flag of Cyprus

The national flag of Cyprus (Simaía tis Kýprou; Kıbrıs bayrağı) came into use on 16 August 1960, under the Zürich and London Agreements, whereby a constitution was drafted and Cyprus was proclaimed an independent state.

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Flag of Israel

The flag of the State of Israel (דגל ישראל Degel Yīsraʾel; علمإسرائيل ʿAlam Isrāʾīl) was adopted on 28 October 1948, five months after the Israeli Declaration of Independence.

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Flag of Turkey

The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag (Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white star and crescent on its emblem, a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire. Flag of Northern Cyprus and flag of Turkey are flags with star and crescent and red and white flags.

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Flags of Asia

This is a list of international, national and subnational flags used in Asia.

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Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus is recognised only by Turkey, a country which facilitates many of its contacts with the international community. Flag of Northern Cyprus and Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus are government of Northern Cyprus.

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Glossary of vexillology

Flag terminology is the nomenclature, or system of terms, used in vexillology, the study of flags, to describe precisely the parts, patterns, and other attributes of flags and their display.

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Greek Cypriots

Greek Cypriots (Ellinokýprioi, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community.

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Hexadecimal

In mathematics and computing, the hexadecimal (also base-16 or simply hex) numeral system is a positional numeral system that represents numbers using a radix (base) of sixteen.

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How happy is the one who says I am a Turk

Ne mutlu Türküm diyene (i) is a motto of the Republic of Turkey, first used by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in his speech delivered for the 10th Anniversary of the Republic of Turkey (Republic Day) on 29 October 1933.

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Kemalism

Kemalism (Kemalizm, also archaically Kamâlizm) or Atatürkism (Atatürkçülük) is a political ideology based on the ideas of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey.

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Kyrenia Mountains

The Kyrenia Mountains (Κερύνειο Όρος; Girne Dağları) is a long, narrow mountain range that runs for approximately along the northern coast of the island of Cyprus.

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List of states with limited recognition

A number of polities have declared independence and sought diplomatic recognition from the international community as sovereign states, but have not been universally recognised as such.

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Mehmet Akif Ersoy

Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem.

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Member of the European Parliament

A member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament.

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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, also known as Mustafa Kemal Pasha until 1921, and Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 1921 until the Surname Law of 1934 (1881 – 10 November 1938), was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.

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National flag

A national flag is a flag that represents and symbolizes a given nation.

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Necmettin Erbakan

Necmettin Erbakan (29 October 1926 – 27 February 2011) was a Turkish politician, engineer, and academic who was the Prime Minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997.

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Nicosia

Nicosia (also known as Lefkosia in Greek and Lefkoşa in Turkish) is the capital and largest city of Cyprus.

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Nile

The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.

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Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus, officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), is a de facto state that comprises the northeastern portion of the island of Cyprus.

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President of Northern Cyprus

The president of Northern Cyprus is the head of state of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

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President of Turkey

The president of Turkey, officially the president of the Republic of Türkiye (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Cumhurbaşkanı), is the head of state and head of government of Turkey.

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Prime Minister of Turkey

The prime minister of Turkey, officially the prime minister of the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Başbakanı), was the head of government of the Republic of Turkey from 1920 to 2018, who led a political coalition in the Turkish Parliament and presided over the cabinet.

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Rauf Denktaş

Rauf Raif Denktaş (27 January 1924 – 13 January 2012) was a Turkish Cypriot politician, barrister and jurist who served as the founding president of Northern Cyprus.

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RGB color model

The RGB color model is an additive color model in which the red, green and blue primary colors of light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.

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Robert S. P. Beekes

Robert Stephen Paul Beekes (2 September 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a Dutch linguist who was emeritus professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University and an author of many monographs on the Proto-Indo-European language.

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Soma mine disaster

On 13 May 2014, blasting at Eynez coal mine in Soma, Manisa, Turkey, caused an underground mine fire, which burned until 15 May.

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Spanish fess

In heraldry and vexillology, a Spanish fess is a term occasionally used to describe the central horizontal stripe of a tricolour or triband flag that is twice the width of the stripes on either side of it.

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Star and crescent

The conjoined representation of a crescent and a star is used in various historical contexts, including as a prominent symbol of the Ottoman Empire, and in contemporary times, as a national symbol by some countries, and as a symbol of Islam.

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Turkey

Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.

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Turkish Cypriots

Turkish Cypriots or Cypriot Turks (Kıbrıs Türkleri or; Tourkokýprioi) are ethnic Turks originating from Cyprus.

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Turkish Federated State of Cyprus

The Turkish Federated State of Cyprus (TFSC) was a state in Northern Cyprus, declared in 1975 and existed until 1983.

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Turkish invasion of Cyprus

The Turkish invasion of Cyprus began on 20 July 1974 and progressed in two phases over the following month.

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Turkish lira

The lira (Türk lirası; sign: ₺; ISO 4217 code: TRY; abbreviation: TL) is the official currency of Turkey and Northern Cyprus, as well as one of the two currencies used in northern Syria under the country's interim government.

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Turkish nationalism

Turkish nationalism (Türk milliyetçiliği) is nationalism among the people of Turkey and individuals whose national identity is Turkish.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus

The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus is a demilitarized zone, patrolled by the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP), that was established on 4 March 1964, then extended on 9 August after the Battle of Tillyria and extended again in 1974 after the ceasefire of 16 August 1974, following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, and the de facto partition of the island into the area controlled by the Republic of Cyprus (excluding the British Sovereign Base Areas) and the largely unrecognized Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in the north.

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White

White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue).

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Zionism

Zionism is an ethno-cultural nationalist movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish state through the colonization of a land outside of Europe.

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2004 Cypriot Annan Plan referendums

A referendum on the Annan Plan was held in the Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus on 24 April 2004.

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2014 Gaza War

The 2014 Gaza War, also known as Operation Protective Edge (translit), and Battle of the Withered Grain (translit), was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory that has been governed by Hamas since 2007.

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2015 Ankara bombings

On 10 October 2015 at 10:04 local time (EEST) in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey, two bombs were detonated outside Ankara Central railway station. With a death toll of 109 civilians, the attack surpassed the 2013 Reyhanlı bombings as the deadliest terror attack in Turkish history. Another 500 people were injured.

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2016 Atatürk Airport attack

The Atatürk Airport attack, consisting of shootings and suicide bombings, occurred on 28 June 2016 at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul, Turkey.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Northern_Cyprus

Also known as Emin Çizenel, Flag of North Cyprus, Flag of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Presidential standard of Northern Cyprus, Turkish Cypriot flag.

, Turkish Cypriots, Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, Turkish invasion of Cyprus, Turkish lira, Turkish nationalism, United Nations, United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, White, Zionism, 2004 Cypriot Annan Plan referendums, 2014 Gaza War, 2015 Ankara bombings, 2016 Atatürk Airport attack.

Flag of Northern Cyprus, the Glossary

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See also

1984 establishments in Northern Cyprus

Culture of Northern Cyprus

Flags introduced in 1984

Flags of Northern Cyprus

Flags of states with limited recognition

Flags with star and crescent

Government of Northern Cyprus

References