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Flag of Beşiktaş, two versions - Images by Jens Pattke, 10 November 2012, and Tomislav Šipek, 26 February 2015, respectively
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The municipality of Beşiktaş (186,067 inhabitants in 2012; 2,133 ha) is located on the European shore of Bosphorus.
Ivan Sache, 21 February 2016
The flag of Beşiktaş, used horizontally or vertically (photo), is made of the district's embem. The emblem is also shown on a white horizontal flag (photo). "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The emblem of the municipality features the Gate of the Treasury (Hazine-i Hassa Kapısı) of the Dolmabahçe Palace (photo), erected from 1843 to 1856 by the 31st Ottoman Sultan, Abdulmecid (1839-1861). The palace was divided into three sections, the State Apartments, the Ceremonial Hall, and the Imperial Harem. The place of death of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the palace was used as the seat of the Presidency of the Republic from 1927 to 1938. The Dolmabahçe Palace was transformed into a palace-museum in 1984 (official website).
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 21 February 2016
Flag of Beşiktaş JK - Image by Ivan Sache & António Martins, after a photo taken by Dov Gutterman, 29 July 1999
Beşiktaş Gymnastics Club (Beşiktaş Jimnastik Kulübü), established in 1903, is probably the oldest Turkish sports club. Its football department won the Turkish championship in the super-league 11 times between 1957 and 2009, and also the Turkish amateur championship four times between 1934 and 1988.
The flag of Beşiktaş JK is horizontally divided black-white-black-white-black, with the national flag in canton, two-stripe wide.
Beşiktaş is the only Turkish club entitled to have the Turkish flag on its emblem, because it once represented Turkey
against the Greek national team.
Dov Gutterman & Jarig Bakker, 2 August 1999
Flag of Beşiktaş JK, as seen on 24 April 2013 in Kuşadası - Image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 May 2014
Another flag of the club is horizontally divided white-black-white-black-white with the club's emblem in the center. The emblem is made of a shield outlined in black and white, vertically divided black-white-black-white-black. The letters "BJK" appears in chiefe in counterchanged colours. The year of foundation, "1903", appears in base with two digits in the central stripe. inbetween is a red inescutcheon charged with a white crescent pointing upawards and ensigned by a white five-pointed star.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 2 May 2014