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The Kökbayraq ("sky flag"), anglicised as the Kokbayraq, is a flag unofficially used to represent the Xinjiang region of China and the historic region of East Turkestan in East Asia. The flag was originally used as the national flag of the short-lived breakaway state known as the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934). The Kökbayraq has a white crescent (young Lunar phase, waning moon) with a five pointed star on blue background, it was adopted on 12 November 1933 as the national flag of the First East Turkestan Republic during Declaration of independence. With the exception of the blue background, the flag is identical to the Flag of Turkey. Uyghurs in Kyrgyzstan and Uyghurs in Pakistan, Pakistan fly the flag as their ethnic flag.
Constitution – East Turkistan Government in Exile
Article 4. It is actively used by Uyghur activists in protests against China's Uyghur genocide, genocide of Uyghurs and the Xinjiang re-education camps, re-education camp system in Xinjiang. The light blue colour (background) is taken from the colour of the sky and is a predominant colour in Turkic culture that represents the sky, essentially the blue represents Turkic peoples. The crescent represents the notion of being victorious (un-defeatable) and is not necessarily an Islamic symbol, in-fact it was the Turks that introduced the crescent into the Islamic world. The star represents the Turkic nation, and is also found on the flag of the White Hun (Hephthalites, Hephthalite) Empire and various other Turkic empires and states.
File:Flag of the Second East Turkestan Republic.svg, Another version that existed during the Second East Turkestan Republic, second republic
File:$1000 East Turkistan Dollar Note – 1945.png, A banknote issued by the government of the Second Republic.
File:Ehmetjan Qasimi and delegates of the central government.jpg,
File:Uyghur protest in Munich 2008.jpg, Uyghur man with Kökbayraq flag in Munich, Germany
File:İstanbul 6897.jpg, Kökbayraq flag in a shop in Istanbul, Turkey
File:Uyghur People Demand Freedom with Flag of East Turkestan in front of the U.N. Building in NYC 維吾爾人在紐約聯合國大樓外高舉東突厥斯坦國旗要求自由.jpg, Protesters with Kökbayraq flag in front of the UN building in New York City
File:East Turkestan (14674325238).jpg, Uyghurs holding the flag in an event
File:East Turkestan (14860939045).jpg, Uyghur woman dancing in front of the flag in Washington D.C.
File:East Turkestan (14880799783).jpg, Uyghur man with the flag
Usage
In modern times it is popularly used as a symbol of the East Turkestan independence movement and is claimed by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile, East Turkistan Government in Exile to be the national flag of an independent East Turkestan.Article 4. It is actively used by Uyghur activists in protests against China's Uyghur genocide, genocide of Uyghurs and the Xinjiang re-education camps, re-education camp system in Xinjiang. The light blue colour (background) is taken from the colour of the sky and is a predominant colour in Turkic culture that represents the sky, essentially the blue represents Turkic peoples. The crescent represents the notion of being victorious (un-defeatable) and is not necessarily an Islamic symbol, in-fact it was the Turks that introduced the crescent into the Islamic world. The star represents the Turkic nation, and is also found on the flag of the White Hun (Hephthalites, Hephthalite) Empire and various other Turkic empires and states.
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See also
* Emblem of East Turkestan * Flag of Cyrenaica * Flag of Tibet * Flag of Turkey * Second East Turkestan RepublicReferences
{{reflist Former countries in Chinese history Obsolete national flags Flags introduced in 1933, East Turkestan East Turkestan independence movement Flags of indigenous peoples, East