Difination: The
Quality National Flag of Kurdistan
format: 70x100 cm
price € 20,00
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND:
The National Flag was first introduced by the leaders of the Khoyboun,
("independence") movement to represent the Kurds in their
struggle for independence from the moribund Ottoman Empire. It was
subsequently presented to the members of the international delegation
at the Paris Peace Conference that devised a plan for Kurdish independence
as a part of the Treaty of Sèrves with Ottoman Turkey in 1920.
Under the same flag the Khoyboun announced the formation of the first
"Kurdish Government in Exile" in 1927 and fought a drawn-out
war until 1932, in order to revive the Kurdish national independence,
lost since 1848.
In 1946 and the creation of the Republic of Kurdistan at Mehabad,
the old "sunny flag" was adopted by its parliament as the
official Flag of the Republic. Following these historic background,
the National Flag is widely adopted in Kurdistan and has been set
aloft by various Kurdish movements and entities in all sectors of
the land.
The "sunny flag" has thus been consecrated by the blood
of all Kurdish patriots of this century, from tens of thousands who
fell in defending the independence movement under the Khoyboun, to
the President of the Republic of Kurdistan and his elected cabinet
who were hanged in sight of this flag by the foe. The flag was aloft
when Dersim was immolated in 1938; it was aloft when wounded Kurds
on stretchers were placed before the firing squads in 1980; it was
aloft when Kurdish civilians were gassed in their thousands in cities
and towns in 1988; it was aloft when millions were driven from their
villages and towns that have been set alight since 1989; and, it remains
aloft everywhere today--150 years after the loss of Kurdish independence--when
Kurds are redoubling their perennial struggle to regain their dignity
and equality with other nations by reviving their right to choose
the course of their own future.
NATIONAL EMBLEM:
The primary Kurdish characteristic of the flag is the golden sun
emblem atthe center. The sun emblem has a rligious and cultural
history among the Kurds, stretching into antiquity. The sun disk of
the emblem has 21 rays, equal in size and shape. The number 21
holds a primary importance in the native Yazdani religious tradition
of the Kurds.
by: Dr. B. A. Eliasi
1998
