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Flag of Germencik - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 2 November 2019
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The municipality of Germencik (43,913 inhabitants in 2018; is located 25 km of Aydın.
Ivan Sache, 29 May 2020
The flag of Germencik (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem. "T.C." stands for "Türkiye Cumhuriyeti", "Republic of Turkey"; "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The emblem was selected in June 2019 among more than 80 proposals submitted in a public contest.
As explained by its designer, Erman Taşdemir, the logo features a fig tree and olive leaves inscribed in a frame symbolizing cotton. It also features three human silhouettes: the vertical silhouette representing the municipal administration, while the lateral silhouettes, placed horizontally, represent the social diversity and compatibility of Germencik's people.
Green is a symbol of agriculture, peace and prosperity.
Blue is a symbol of innovative, open and transparent management.
The colors are specified as:
Blue #004D7B / CMYK 98 67 27 12 / RGB 0 77 123 Green 1 #867E1E / CMYK 46 36 100 22 / RGB 134 126 30 Green 2 #9A8F1C / CMYK 40 31 100 5 / RGB 154 143 28 Green 3 #AEA446 / CMYK 34 35 81 8 / RGB 175 164 70
The typeface for the writing is Roboto.
[Municipal website]
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 28 May 2020
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Former flag of Germencik - Image by Tomislav Šipek, 2 November 2019
The former flag of Germencik was white with the municipality's former emblem. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The emblem features figs, an olive tree, cotton and the Germencik geothermal power plant.
The Efeler geothermal plant is being built by a subsidiary of Güriş Holding, a leading Turkish renewable energy company. The plant’s five units – three of them already operational – are situated near the western town of Germencik, in the Buyuk Menderes Graben, the area in Turkey with the greatest potential for geothermal energy.
When completed later this year, the plant will reach 170 MW capacity, making it one of the ten largest geothermal plants in the world.
It will also increase the amount of installed geothermal capacity in Turkey by about 30 per cent, a substantial contribution to reaching the country’s 2023 renewable energy targets.
Turkey is aiming to add 34 GW of hydropower, 20 GW of wind energy, 5 GW of solar energy, 1 GW of biomass and 1 GW of geothermal to its energy mix by 2023.
The geothermal potential in the country is estimated at around 4 GW, of which only 427 MW has been developed to date.
[EBRD, 29 June 2015]
Tomislav Šipek & Ivan Sache, 28 May 2020