This emoji waves Türkiye’s scarlet banner with the crisp white crescent and five-pointed star—aka the ay-yıldız you can spot from a mile away. On Apple/iOS it’s a softly rippling, pole-less rectangle in vivid red, with the crescent and star snug on the hoist side; clean edges, high contrast, very screenshot-friendly and unmistakable at tiny sizes. People drop it for national pride, match-day hype, Republic Day (29 Ekim) posts, or whenever a baklava vs. dessert tier list threatens friendships. It’s a travel flex too—paired with hot-air balloons for Cappadocia, beach shots from Antalya, or a simit + skyline moment over the Bosphorus.
In sports and pop culture, it cruises alongside Galatasaray/Fenerbahçe/Beşiktaş banter, and the “Come to Beşiktaş” recruitment meme lives rent-free across timelines. Online, the flag swings from celebratory (victory laps) to playfully dramatic—think “Ottoman mode activated” jokes and maximum keyboard-warrior confidence. Flirty or foodie texting? It shows up with hearts, kebab, tea, and Turkish coffee to say “aşk + afiyet olsun” without typing a paragraph. Culturally, the design hooks into the long-running crescent-and-star iconography and modern republican identity tied to Atatürk; “Türkiye” also mirrors the country’s preferred international styling. TL;DR: need Anatolian vibes, Eurovision-era nostalgia, or a classy way to announce that the lokum absolutely slaps? This flag gets it done.
The country of Turkey is represented by this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 964 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Previous Names: | Regional Indicator Symbol Letters TR Flag of Turkey |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🇹🇷 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🇹🇷 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🇹 🇷 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🇹 🇷 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f1f9, 1f1f7 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F1F9, U+1F1F7 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 127481, 127479 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB9, 0xF0 0x9F 0x87 0xB7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 87 B9, F0 9F 87 B7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 207 271, 360 237 207 267 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83C 0xDDF9, 0xD83C 0xDDF7 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83cddf9, d83cddf7 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55356 56825, 55356 56823 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F1F9 0x0001F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F1F9, 01F1F7 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 127481, 127479 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F1F9\U0001F1F7" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x87\xb9\xf0\x9f\x87\xb7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83C\uDDF9\uD83C\uDDF7" |
