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The triangular pennant with green and yellow stripes and a red star represents the ARGK (Arteshen Rizgariya Gelli Kurdistan, the People's Liberation Army of Kurdistan, under the command of the PKK.
Jacob Zhu, 25 May 1998
The triangular version of the ARGK flag is designed to hang vertically from a pike (like certain medieval and ecclesiastical banners) and carried on parad.The HRK also had this triangular flag, with the letters H-R-K in exactly the same position as on the rectangular flag.
ARGK disbanded earlier in 2000 after the 7th PKK Congress. The
flag of the organisation will presumably no longer be seen in public,
except as an historic artifact.
T. F. Mills, 27 February 1999 & 10 July 2000
The triangular flag of the ARGK was also occasionally seen in a more conventional rectangular form. This conventional rectangular flag was meant to be flown from stationary flag poles. I can't imagine there were many places in Turkey where this couldbe safely done, and Syria recently shut down ARGK bases on its territory.
T. F. Mills, 27 September 1997 & 27 February 1999
I have a photograph of a demonstration of Kurds, probably
somewhere in Central Europe. In this picture, there are a lot of
flags, being all but one flags of the ERNK (Red flag with red star
within a yellow circle surrounded by a green disk). The remaining
flag is unknown to me. It is hardly seen on the background but, using
a magnifying lens, I was able to make an approximate reconstruction:
it is a rectangular flag, divided yellow over green in proportions
approximately 4:1, and with a large red five-pointed star centered in
the intersection of the two stripes and shifted towards the hoist.
The resulting image is quite weird to my eyes, so I'm not 100% sure
of it.
Jorge Candeias, 4 April 1998
I suspect the perspective gave you a distorted impression. Apart
from the asymmetrical stripes and star shifted to the hoist, this is
the flag of the ARGK . The ARGK flag is almost always triangular in
shape, and often carried vertically.
Todd Mills, 4 April 1998