Non-Official Flags
Some younger nations used to be aspirant countries not too long ago. The flags in this entry were or are being raised on a flagpole and maybe another structure that might still be struggling to establish a national state. Some of these flags are politically controversial.
The flag of the Arab Revolt is maybe one of the widely used by Arab groups of all kinds, thus promoting the idea of an Arab state in the Israeli-occupied part of Palestine. It dates in this form from about the nineteen twenties, and is also the flag of the ‘Ba’ath’ parties dominant in Syria and Iraq. The state of Arab Palestine was proclaimed but not recognized in 1988.
The Kurds have been in the media for a long time. These people inhabit a region along the border of Turkey, Syria and Iraq, and Iran. The Kurds have made a number of attempts to establish a national state since the forties. Their basic flag is a ‘triband’ in the colors red, white and green. A yellow sun is displayed on the white band, in the middle. It seems that this flag has been subject to variation. Even though similar in design to the national flag of Iran, the arrangement and use of colors are unrelated.
The Western Sahara has an established government that no longer is in exile in Algeria. This governed has claimed all the former Western Spanish Sahara, which are now occupied by Morocco. Their representing flag dates from nineteen seventy-six.
The province of Eritrea was federated to Ethiopia in the fifties and annexed some 10 years later. For some years two politically divided separatist groups were fighting to win the province back from Ethiopia. The organization seeking independence has raised a flag on an Eritrean flagpole that dates back to ’52. Another movement flies a flag that was used since nineteen seventy. The latter flag’s design is very much symbolic. The 5 branches used in the design stand for unity, democracy and progress.
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