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image by Tomislav Šipek, 4 October 2017
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The flag of Baykan (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
Tomislav Šipek, 4 October 2017
image by Tomislav Šipek, 15 November 2018
The flag of the Akçadağ district government (photo) is white with the government's emblem. "T.C." means "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti", "Republic of Turkey"; "Kaymakamlığı" means "District government".
Tomislav Šipek, 15 November 2018
image by Tomislav Šipek, 27 December 2017
The flag of Atabağı is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
Tomislav Šipek, 27 December 2017
image by Tomislav Šipek,
3 March 2025
The flag now uses a new logo iwth a green ring.
https://siirthaberci.com
Tomislav Šipek,
3 March 2025
Earlier flags
images by Tomislav Šipek, 21 November 2017
The municipality of Veyselkarani, formerly known as Ziyaret, is located 10 km south-west of Baykan.
The flag of Veyselkarani (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality". The emblem features the shrine of Veysel Karani, a Sufi mystic saint better known under his Arab name, Uwais al-Qarani.
The tradition says that Uwais al-Qarani lived in Yemen at the time of
the prophet, whom he never personally met. Accordingly, he soon became
the prototypical mystic saint, inspired by grace but without any
physical connection with the Prophet. In the Sufi vocabulary, an
uwaysî is a mystic saint who reached spiritual illumination without
either mediation or a spiritual guide. The circle of those early Sufi
defined the ideal Muslim life as islâm (the acceptation of the divine
commandments prescribed in Quran), îmân (inner faith) and ihsân (search for perfection).
[Islamica]
The shrine was built in 1901 and covered with a dome. Replaced in 1967
by a new tomb, the monument was restored in 2001 in modern style. Veysel
Karani's pilgrimage is held every year on 16-17 May, while 200,000
pilgrims pay a visit to the shrine every year.
[Gezi
Yorumları, 4 December 2009]
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 22 November 2017