Auckland Regional Office

27 October 2006

Media Release

Turkish flag to fly on Auckland Harbour Bridge

The flag of Turkey will fly from Auckland Harbour Bridge on Sunday 29 October, in recognition of Turkish National Day. The flag will be flown from 6:30am until 6:30pm.

Transit considers requests from nations wanting to commemorate their country’s national days. Recently the Austrian, Nigerian and Maltese flags have all flown on the bridge.

ENDS

Note to editors:
To see a picture of the Turkish flag please go to: http://flagspot.net/flags/tr.html