The Flag of Kurdistan (Kurdish: Alay Kurdistan or Alaya Kurdistanê, ئاڵای کوردستان, also called Alaya Rengîn "The Colorful Flag") first appeared during the movement for Kurdish independence from the Ottoman Empire. Consisting of a tricolor of red, white, and green horizontal bands with a yellow sun disk of 21 rays at its center, it is currently the official flag of the autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq, which is under the control of the Kurdistan Regional Government. This flag is banned in Iran, Turkey and Syria[2]
The flag resembles an earlier version created by the Xoybûn (Khoyboon) organization, active in the Ararat rebellion of 1930,[2] and flown by the break-away Republic of Ararat during the period 1927-1931. The current flag appeared then again in 1932 and it was the cover of the kurdish magazine Hawar by Celadet Ali Bedirxan one of the founders of Xoybun. " Ala kurdan, ji jor ber bi jêr ve, ser hev, sor, sipî û qesq e, di nava wê de roj diçirise" the kurdish flag is red, white and green with a sun in the middle that's how Celadet Ali Bedirxan described the flag.[3][4] A similar flag was later used by the Soviet-backed Kurdish Republic known as the Republic of Mahabad in 1946.
The main characteristic of the flag is the blazing golden sun emblem (called a Roj) at its center. The emblem's sun disk has 21 rays, equal in size and shape. 21 is a venerated number, standing for rebirth/renaissance in the ancient and native Kurdish religion of Yazdanism and its modern offshoots, Yezidism, Yarsanism, and Alevism.
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