This article the flag image concerning architecture in republic period Turkish painting is surveyed.Besides many various definitions flag, which has social and political meanings, can be seen as arepresentation of belonging. Before the republic period the Turkish painters who were headedtowards western painting techniques, headed for to represent the revolution and its social effectsalong with the republic is observed. During this period the Turkish flags represented in paintingsoften taken as a tribute to the new established republic and a sign of government. Along with therepublic, conjunction with the ideology of nationalism, it has been tried to build a new memory bymaking alternations on architecture and city planning. In the early republic period, it can be seenthat the flag images used along with the architecture in paintings, the flag represents the entiregovernment. Within this context the subject of the article will be explained by looking for usage ofthe flags that nestle many perceptible and notional meaning, used along with the architecture inpainting.