Today is Kurdish Flag Day, 17 December

The flag first appeared during the movement for Kurdish independence from the Ottoman Empire and resembles an earlier version created by the Xoybûn (Khoyboon) organization, active in the Ararat rebellion of 1930 and flown by the break-away Republic of Ararat during the period 1927–1931. The flag appeared then again in 1932 and in the media where one of its creators described it as red, white and green with a sun in the middle.
 A similar flag was later used by the Soviet-backed Kurdish Republic known as the Republic of Mahabad in 1946.