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Turkey has no official national emblem, but the crescent and star (Turkish: ay-yıldız, lit. ' crescent-star ') design from the national flag is in use on Turkish passports, Turkish identity cards and at the diplomatic missions of Turkey. The crescent and star are from the 19th-century Ottoman flag (1844–1923) which also forms the basis of ...
The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag [2] (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white crescent and star on its emblem, It’s based on the 18th-century Ottoman Empire flag. [3] The flag is often called "the red flag" (al bayrak), and is referred to as "the red banner" (al sancak) in the Turkish national anthem ...
Hilal Ahmar (Arabic: الهلال الأحمر, Persian: هلال احمر, Turkish: Hilâl-i Ahmer,Urdu: ہلالِ احمر) . [a] Hilal Ahmar is a charitable organization;, and is part of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Disaster management: Operations in 78 countries in natural and human related disasters in the last 10 years [9]; Blood donations provided through 17 Regional Blood Centers, 65 Blood Donation Centers with more than 150 mobile blood donation vehicles [10] Kinik, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent, said "Nearly 2.4 million people have donated blood to the Red Crescent in 2017, and there were ...
[[File:Flag of the Red Crescent.svg|border|96x176px]] The use of the symbol shown in this image is regulated by certain international treaties, particularly the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their additional protocols of 1977 and 2005, as well as other rules of International Humanitarian Law either in ...
The "Red Crescent" emblem was adopted by volunteers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) as early as 1877 during the Russo-Turkish War; it was officially adopted in 1929. [ 18 ] After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, the crescent and star was used in several national flags adopted by its successor states.