What the....?

Occasionally your faithful correspondent looks beyond the oceans on either side of the US.
While reading through one of the newspapers originating in the United Kingdom it was discovered that either April 22 or April 23 was St. George's Day in Great Britain. St. George, as we all know, is the patron saint of England. The English flag is a white flag with a red cross on it. Think of the Danish flag backwards. The flag of the United Kingdom is the Union Jack, which features the crosses of St. George, St. David (Wales), St. Andrew (Scotland) and St. Patrick (Ireland) all overlaid on a blue field.
It is traditional on St. George's Day to fly the English flag in England and on the ships of the Royal Navy. This year the British government instructed the ships of the Royal Navy on deployment in the Eastern Mediterranean not to fly the St. George's (English) flag this St. George's Day. The reason is because flying a flag featuring St. George's cross might offend the Turkish government and people, and remind them of the Crusades.
I hope the Turks will have the same consideration when their ships and airplanes arrive in Italy and Austria. I'm sure they wouldn't want to remind the populations of those countries of the Turkish attempts of invasion by flying the Crescent flag.
Or am I being silly?