Is flag burning illegal in Turkey?
Criminal offense
Turkey forbids burning any nation's flag with prison sentences ranging from 3 months to 3 years.
Turkey is one of 53 countries classified “Criminal offense” for flag desecration — 79% of the 67 with data. (Also searched as flag burning.)
Source
- Taken from
- Wikipedia: Flag desecration
- Last checked
- 7 July 2026
- How it was classified
- Classified by a language model from the source text, then checked against hand-verified reference countries.
Nearby countries
- Armenia
- Criminal offense Flag desecration is illegal in Armenia with imprisonment terms of up to 1 year.
- Israel
- Criminal offense Deliberately burning an Israeli flag is illegal and punishable by up to three years imprisonment.
- Azerbaijan
- Criminal offense Flag desecration is illegal in Azerbaijan with imprisonment terms of up to 1 year.
- Bulgaria
- Criminal offense Flag desecration is illegal in Bulgaria with imprisonment terms of up to 2 years.
- Egypt
- Criminal offense Flag desecration has been illegal in Egypt since 2014 with fines up to 30,000 pounds.
- Ukraine
- Criminal offense Ukraine punishes flag desecration with up to one year imprisonment.
Other laws in Turkey
- Blasphemy Laws
- Criminal offense
- Apostasy Laws
- Criminal offense
- Holocaust Denial
- No specific law
- Conversion Therapy
- No ban
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