Contemporary Use
Today the flag is also used by Muslim-majority states which are not successor states of the Ottoman Empire. These include Azerbaijan (1918), Pakistan (1947), Mauritania (1959) and Malaysia (1950).
Different designs that also involve a crescent and stars are found in the flags of the Comoros (1963), Uzbekistan (1991) and Turkmenistan (1992).
Read more about this topic: Star And Crescent
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