Learn about the most important flags of the Kurds

Great Kurdistan's Flag:

It is the flag that the Kurdish people consider the flag of their major state, which is land, has become parts of five current countries, Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, and a small part of Armenia called Red Kurdistan.

The red color refers to the blood of the martyrs, the green is for the nature of Kurdistan, the white is for peace and the yellow sun to the religion of the Zoroastrian sacred to them, in addition there are 21 rays of the sun and is a sacred number for them which is the day of Newroz.

Flag of PKK:

It was founded in 1978 in Turkey under 

the leadership of Abdullah Ocalan as an opposition party to the repressive regime of Turkey.

The Flag of Autonomy for Northern and Eastern Syria:

An autonomous region protected by the SDF was gradually established after the areas were regained from ISIS control.

Flag of the Democratic Union Party

A Syrian Kurdish party, founded in 2003, the leader is Saleh Muslim, whose goals are democratic socialism, municipal independence, anti-nationalism and socialist ecology.

Flag of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (Iraq) :

A liberal nationalist party founded in 1946 by Mustafa Mulla Barzani.

Flag of the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (Iran) :

An Iranian Kurdish party was founded by Osman Ocalan, the younger brother of leader Abdullah Ocalan, in 2004 as a result of Iran's repressive rule, and it aims to grab autonomy for the Kurdish regions in Iran.

Flag of the People's Democratic Party(Turkey):

A  Kurdish Turkish leftist party aims to consolidate justice and democracy among the different colors of Turkey. It was founded in 2012 and is headed by leader Saladin Dmartash whose  now detained in Turkey's prisons.

Flag of the SDF (Syrian Democracy Forces) :

Founded in 2015, it is a multi-component alliance whose goals are a secular Syria with a federal democratic system, and it's related to the Democratic Union Party.

The leader is the General Mazlum Abdi.

Flags of the YPG and YPJ :

Two Kurdish military groups founded in 2004, one for men and one for women,

they forms the backbone of the SDF.