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
- Date
- April 6, 2017
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) and Syrian Democratic Forces groups (flags displayed); still from Voice of America footage
Full record
Region, Country, Medium, Issuer type, Regime, Leader, Audience, Purpose, Theme, Event, Source, Rights
- Region
- Middle East and North Africa
- Country
- Syrian Democratic Forces
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- Movement
- Regime
- Syrian Democratic Forces
- Leader
- Mazloum Abdi
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- Syrian Civil War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 11, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (US government work, Voice of America), via Commons
Voice of America, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
Original (Kurdish) · read from the image, not independently checked
HPJ [illegible: other flag lettering, partly in Kurdish]
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.
