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image by Jens Pattke, 3 March 2013
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The flag of Bafra (photo) is white with the municipality's emblem, which features tobacco leaves and the Çetinkaya Bridge. "Belediyesi" means "Municipality".
The tobacco leaves recall that Bafra was once the most
important center of tobacco cultivation in Turkey.
Bafra is indeed the namesake of a tobacco cultivar, described in 1922 by
Carl Avery Werner (Tobaccoland), as follows: "Bafra tobacco is
particularly famous for its exquisite taste and aromatic quality. Most
of it is stemless. It is rather a darkish-red in color, and the leaves
are tongue-shaped."
Bafra is an old Turkish-type tobacco used historically as a pipe and
cigarette blending tobacco variety.
[Samsun
unofficial website]
Tomislav Šipek &
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image by Ivan Sache, 7 November 2017
The Bafra Chamber of Commerce and Industry (website) was established in 1903, in order to respond to the boom which had occurred since native and foreign merchants came to the district frequently and exported tobacco.
The flag of the Bafra Chamber of Commerce and Industry (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo) is white with the organization's logo.
Ivan Sache, 7 November 2017
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 28
July 2025
The flag of Bafra Commodity Exchange is white with the logo centered.
http://www.bafratb.org.tr
Tomislav Šipek, 28
July 2025