Qatar flag burgundy and white.
What is the burgundy and white flag?
The Ottoman Empire, Iran, and Britain all had an interest in finding allies among the small Arab sheikhdoms in the Persian Gulf during the 19th century. A treaty signed in 1868 between Britain and one of those states, Qatar, may have been the occasion for the creation of the distinctive Qatari flag. Later the Turkish flag flew there, but during World War I, when the United Kingdom and the Ottoman Empire were enemies, the British again moved to preserve sovereignty for Qatar under British protection. The Union Jack was not flown, except by the local British representative.