Kurdish Sun

The Kurdish sun "Roj" is a burning golden sun and the national emblem of the Kurds. It has a religious and cultural history among the Kurds, dating back to ancient times.[1] It's also found inside the flag of Kurdistan and the official flag of the Kurdistan Region. The sun disk of the emblem contains 21 rays of equal size and shape. Number 21 is a venerable number, standing for the renaissance in the ancient and original Kurdish religion, Yazdani, and its modern branches.[1] The number 21 also symbolizes March 21, the holiday of Nowruz, which is the Kurdish New Year.[2][3][4][5][6]

The Kurdish sun

History

Kurdish flags used

The first version of the modern Kurdistan flag, adopted by Xoybûn in 1928 as the flag of the Republic of Ararat (1927-1930).[7]
Flag adopted by the Republic of Mahabad in the mid-forties.[7]
The third and current version of the flag, which was adopted by the Kurdistan Region in 1992[7] It is also used by the national Kurdish parties in Iran,[8] Turkey,[9] and Syria.[10]

References

"The National Flag of Kurdistan". web.archive.org. 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2020-12-05.
"For Kurds, a day of bonfires, legends, and independence - CSMonitor.com". web.archive.org. 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
"نوروز ـ نيروز | الموسوعة العربية". web.archive.org. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
"The Kurds : a concise handbook : Izady, Mehrdad R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". web.archive.org. 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-12-12.
Yildiz, Kerim; Fryer, Georgina (2004). The Kurds: Culture and Language Rights. Kurdish Human Rights Project. ISBN 1-900175-74-6.
Wahlbeck, Osten (1999). Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship). Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-22067-7.
Johannes, Chris (21 July 2017). "Years before independence talk someone had foresight to standardize the Kurdish flag". Rudaw.
Goran, Baxtiyar (12 January 2016). "PAK leader: Kurds only have one problem". Kurdistan 24.
"Rafet Şahin ölümünün 1. Yılında HAK-PAR İstanbul İl Binasında anıldı". hakpar.org.tr (in Turkish).
Arafat, Hisham (31 January 2016). "ENKS confirms representation of Kurds in Geneva". Kurdistan 24.

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[Wayback_Machine-1] "The National Flag of Kurdistan". web.archive.org. 2008-05-01. Retrieved 2020-12-05.

[2] "For Kurds, a day of bonfires, legends, and independence - CSMonitor.com". web.archive.org. 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-12-12.

[3] "نوروز ـ نيروز | الموسوعة العربية". web.archive.org. 2017-09-15. Retrieved 2020-12-12.

[4] "The Kurds : a concise handbook : Izady, Mehrdad R : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive". web.archive.org. 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2020-12-12.

[Yildiz-5] Yildiz, Kerim; Fryer, Georgina (2004). The Kurds: Culture and Language Rights. Kurdish Human Rights Project. ISBN 1-900175-74-6.

[diaspora-6] Wahlbeck, Osten (1999). Kurdish Diasporas: A Comparative Study of Kurdish Refugee Communities (Migration, Minorities and Citizenship). Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-22067-7.

[rûdaw-7] Johannes, Chris (21 July 2017). "Years before independence talk someone had foresight to standardize the Kurdish flag". Rudaw.

[8] Goran, Baxtiyar (12 January 2016). "PAK leader: Kurds only have one problem". Kurdistan 24.

[9] "Rafet Şahin ölümünün 1. Yılında HAK-PAR İstanbul İl Binasında anıldı". hakpar.org.tr (in Turkish).

[10] Arafat, Hisham (31 January 2016). "ENKS confirms representation of Kurds in Geneva". Kurdistan 24.