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Erbil, 10 June 1999
In its ordinary session today, the Council of
Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government - KRG discussed a law proposal
concerning raising Kurdistan flag over government buildings in the Kurdish
region along side the Iraqi
flag. The Kurdistan flag comprises of three horizontally arranged colours
red, white and green with a yellow sun in the centre. The proposed law will be
presented soon to the Kurdistan Regional Parliament for approval. Also at the
meeting, the Council of Ministers put forward a proposal to create four more
governorates in the Iraqi Kurdistan. The proposed governorates are Halabja, Soran, Rania and
Akra.
Rezhan, 17 June 1999
Editor's note:: The following information is reproduced from the former website of the Center for Kurdish Political Studies [no longer on-line] with kind permission of its director, Bijan Eliasi.
Introduction
The aim of this document is to introduce in brief the history of the current National Flag of Kurdistan and to help those who use the Kurdish national flag to reproduce it correctly. The document contains the basic rules for the construction of the flag as well as the standard colors to be used.
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 Sèvres 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 Mahabad, 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