The Six Arrows

{{short description|Symbol of the Turkish Republican People's Party}}

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The Six Arrows ({{langx|tr|Altı Ok}}) is the symbol and flag of the Turkish Republican People's Party (CHP). The arrows represent the fundamental pillars of Kemalism, Turkey's founding ideology.{{cite book |first=Vahram |last=Ter-Matevosyan |title=Turkey, Kemalism and the Soviet Union: Problems of Modernization, Ideology and Interpretation |date=2019 |location=London & New York |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan}} These are republicanism, populism, nationalism, laicism, statism, and reformism.{{Cite news |last=Solak |first=Mustafa |date=2018-02-05 |title=Altı Ok Anayasa'ya nasıl eklendi? |trans-title=How were the Six Arrows added to the Constitution? |url=https://www.aydinlik.com.tr/alti-ok-anayasa-ya-nasil-eklendi-ozgurluk-meydani-subat-2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180608003524/https://www.aydinlik.com.tr/alti-ok-anayasa-ya-nasil-eklendi-ozgurluk-meydani-subat-2018 |archive-date=2018-06-08 |access-date=2018-06-08 |work=Aydınlık |language=tr}} The arrows are believed to have been conceived by İsmail Hakkı Tonguç,{{citation |url=https://www.academia.edu/5087633 |title=1930’lar Türkiye’sinde Kemalizm Algılamaları |language=tr |trans-title=Perceptions of Kemalism in Turkey in the 1930s |first=Hakkı |last=Uyar}} a Turkish scientist who made significant contributions to the Turkish education system.{{Cite web |url=https://www.biyografi.info/kisi/ismail-hakki-tonguc |title=İsmail Hakkı Tonguç kimdir? |language=tr |trans-title=Who is İsmail Hakkı Tonguç? |website=www.biyografi.info |access-date=2019-05-01}} The principles of the Six Arrows were added to the Turkish Constitution on 5 February 1937. From August 1938 the flag was hoisted at all official buildings.{{cite book |last1=Kreiser |first1=Klaus |title=Die Geschichte der Türkei |trans-title=The History of Turkey |language=de |date=2012 |publisher=C. H. Beck |location=Munich |isbn=9783406640667 |page=51}}