İsmet Güney
İsmet Vahid Güney | |
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Born | 15 July 1923 |
Died | 23 June 2009 (aged 85) |
Nationality | Cypriot |
Known for | Cartoonist, designer |
Notable work | Flag of Cyprus |
İsmet Vahid Güney (15 July 1923 – 23 June 2009)
Biography
Güney was born in 1923 in Limassol, Cyprus.[1] He began painting while he was a student in high school. After graduating from the Teachers Training College, he started working as an arts teacher in 1948.
From 1948 to 1977 he attended Lefkoşa Erkek Lisesi teaching Art and History. In 1956, he met artist Ibrahim Çallı and worked with him until 1960.
In 1947, Güney became the first
İsmet Güney died of cancer on 23 June 2009, at the age of 85.[1]
Creation of the Cyprus flag
Before the flag of Cyprus was introduced, the flags of Turkey and Greece were used. The current flag was created as the result of a design competition in 1960. Under the constitution, the flag should not include either red or blue colors (the colours of the flag of Turkey and the flag of Greece), nor portray a cross or a crescent. All participants deliberately avoided use of these four elements in an attempt to make the flag "neutral". Thus the Greek blue and Turkish red were avoided by Güney and the other design competitors.[1]
The winning design was based on the proposal by İsmet Güney. The design was chosen by
The white flag was chosen for the young Cyprus as a sign of peace among the two communities living there (Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots). The map of the island is golden yellow, for the sake of easier reproduction of what was originally intended to be a colour of copper, a metal that the island got its name from. Most probably, since there is no brownish-reddish-copper colour in heraldry, the map was changed to golden. The two green olive branches symbolize peace between the two communities of the island.
Currently, only the government-controlled southern part of Cyprus uses Güney's original since the division of the island in 1974.[1]
Güney sought payment from the government of the Republic of Cyprus for his flag design, in addition to
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Evripidou, Stefanos (25 June 2009). "Cyprus flag designer dies". Cyprus Mail. Archived from the original on 1 March 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010.
External links
- Ismet Vehit Güney
- Ismet Vehit Güney
- Ismail KARcomic sitesi at the Wayback Machine (archived 3 October 2002)
- Huseyin Çakmak