Talk:Ottomans/@comment-88.246.220.66-20140826023337/@comment-73.132.68.178-20150406214701

Turkey and the Ottoman Empire is not the same thing. The Turkish Republic was against the politics of the Ottoman Empire. After the Ottoman Empire got weakened by the allies in World War I, the Turkish Republic took over the Ottoman Empire's territories. The Ottoman empire's flag has changed multiple times. The Ottoman Empire didn't have an official flag until 1844. The last version of the flag (1844) is nearly the exact same flag of modern Turkey. However modern day Turkey's flag has a slightly different geometry than the last version of the Ottoman Empire flag. It's very easy to confuse both flags since they're exactly the same exept for slightly different geometry. The flag pictured above is the flag of modern day Turkey.

Here's a photo of the official Ottoman Empire flag: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Ottoman_flag_alternative_2.svg/800px-Ottoman_flag_alternative_2.svg.png

Here's a photo of Republic of Turkey's flag: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Flag_of_Turkey.svg/1200px-Flag_of_Turkey.svg.png