This is a so called
"tugra", in Ottoman times (15th to 18th century) this
standard emblem
would contain the name of the ruler while the shape itself
would be filled
with a pattern of curls, leafs or flowers.
This modern one
contains no such things.
Take a guess at
whose name that is.
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