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In a TV report on 26 March, I saw troops of the Kurdish KDP party with a flag similar to the one
we have (below) as the KDP flag, but with a red disk instead of the blue disk; the disk was
considerably smaller than in our image.
Marcus E.V. Schmöger, 28 March 2003
In a Yahoonews report [no longer available] there's a picture of the raising of
the KDP flag. The caption in Yahoo reads: "Iraqi Kurdish militia fighters raise a
KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) flag in the Qushtapa area, 50 kms (30 miles) south
of the Kurdish-controlled town of
Irbil." The flag is yellow with a red disk with a stylized sigla
PDK within.
Jorge Candeias, 29 March and 2 April 2003
In Flag Report 25 were reported the flags of the main opposition parties in Iraq.
Before, in Flag Report 23, was reported the flag of the Kurdistan Democratic Party,
with a red circle (previously reported as blue). It stated that
the color yellow was used since 1946 as the party color. The circle means the
mountains that protected Kurdistan throughout history. The designer of this flag
was Hussain Haider.
Jaume Ollé, 6 April 2003
![[Former KDP flag]](../images/k/krd-kdp.gif)
image by T. F.
Mills
In 1946 Mustafa Barzani founded the Partiya Demokrata Kurdistane (PDK)
[or Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP)]. In 1959 this was renamed the Kurdistan
Democratic Party to signify that it stood for equal rights of all peoples who
fell within its geographic jurisdiction. The Iraqi branch of the party
eventually adopted a blue and yellow banner. The yellow again represents the
sun (light, life, etc.) and is considered the principal colour of the party. The
blue represents the "farsightedness and loftiness" of the Party's
ideals. Barzani's son Massoud now leads the party, and it represents the more
traditional and tribal parts of Kurdish society in Iraq.
T. F. Mills, 27 September 1997
After the disastrous defeat of the Iraqi Kurds in 1975, Jalal Talabani split
from the KDP and founded the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), whose base is
primarily urban intellectuals. The party's principal colour is green, but I have
not seen a good representation of a flag or banner. In 1964 the Kurdish
Revolutionary Party split from the PDK, and has almost always been a stooge of
the Bagdad regime. I don't know about their flag either.
T. F. Mills, 27 September 1997
image by Jens Pattke
Here is the flag of the Rizgary Party of Kurdistan.
Jens Pattke, 5 April 2003
image by Jens Pattke
Here is the flag of the Kurdistan Socialist Democratic Party.
Jens Pattke, 5 April 2003
I have seen several times in the news three flags over Iraqi Kurdistan:
image by Jaume Ollé
Three horizontal bands, green, yellow and red (1970's and 1980's).
Jaume Ollé, 6 September 1996
![[Kurdish revolt flag ?]](../images/k/krd-mos.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé
Three horizontal bands, yellow, red and green (1991), seen in CNN images during the
Kurdish uprising in Mosul, after the Gulf War.
Jaume Ollé, 6 September 1996
![[Iraqi Kurdish party flag ?]](../images/k/krd-krp.gif)
image by Jaume Ollé
Three bands, red, green, yellow, with a red five-pointed star in the center
of the green band (1994), possibly the flag of the Kurdish Revolutionary
Party.
Jaume Ollé, 6 September 1996