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title: 'Voice of America footage still: flags of YPJ, Asayish, SDF and affiliated bodies at a KCK and SDF conference (Kobani, 6 April 2017)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/syria-kck-sdf-conference-flags-kobani-2017/
description: 'Six flags on small stands are lined up against a wall hung with pink drapery: a green flag with a red star at the left.'
section: Collection
---

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# Voice of America footage still: flags of YPJ, Asayish, SDF and affiliated bodies at a KCK and SDF conference (Kobani, 6 April 2017)

Six flags on small stands are lined up against a wall hung with pink drapery: a green flag with a red star at the left, a yellow-green flag bearing a flame emblem and the letters "HPJ", a pale-blue flag, a blue flag with a yellow emblem, a pale-yellow flag and a green flag with a red star. The tell is separate organisations' flags arranged side by side as one display, which presents the groups at the conference as a single front.

## Propaganda techniques used in this photograph

[Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Full record

Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights

## Text on the object

Original (Kurdish) · read from the image, not independently checked

Original (Kurdish) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
HPJ

[illegible: other flag lettering, partly in Kurdish]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Not translated: "HPJ" is the acronym lettered on the flag; the remaining lettering is illegible.
```

Only the "HPJ" lettering on the flame flag is clearly legible at this resolution.

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