Christian Turks mock up flag and claim it as their own.

The flag above was used by the British East India Company (BEIC), a company which was founded in 1600 and whose main trade was in cotton, silk, indigo dye, saltpetre, tea and opium. The company was defunct in 1858. So when Greece was still a fledgling country they needed a flag. They chose the flag of the BEIC, adapted it with the Bavarian colors in honor of Ludwig I the King of Bavaria who had envisioned the creation of a Greek state (a state that had never existed before). And certainly in a even stronger gesture of gratitude towards Ludwig I, his son Otto became Otto Of Greece and was crowned as the first King of Greece in 1832.