r/kurdistan • u/CreamGang • 1d ago

News/Article Rojava effectively bans using PKK flags, symbols

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/syria/271220242

"Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria (Rojava) have instructed all institutions and political parties to display only emblems and banners representing the administration, a senior politician from the ruling coalition told Rudaw English on Friday. The directive effectively prohibits the use of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) symbols and flags amid calls for the enclave to distance itself from the armed group and efforts to have a unified Kurdish front in the new Syria.  "

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u/Chezameh2 Zaza 1d ago

Understandable but still ridiculous.

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u/shevy-java 1d ago

Agreed on the understandable part; I am not sure if it is "ridiculous". It is mostly rebranding and if that can help somehow then why not? It is really a very small thing, so even if it does not help, it does not really harm either. Those opposing Erdogan's genocidal goals won't trust him anyway and perhaps it may be a possibility for the Kurds to raise (global) awareness for their situation, without being affiliated with whatever negative image the PKK may have had, warranted or not.