{"id":10402,"date":"2023-11-29T20:43:48","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T20:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=10402"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:10:13","slug":"kyrgyzstan-plans-to-redesign-flag-after-president-claims-it-affects-nations-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/asia\/central-asia\/kyrgyzstan\/kyrgyzstan-plans-to-redesign-flag-after-president-claims-it-affects-nations-status\/2023\/11\/29\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyrgyzstan plans to redesign flag after President claims it affects Nation\u2019s status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BISHKEK: On Wednesday, Kyrgyzstan\u2019s parliament approved a new design for the country\u2019s flag, following complaints from President Sadyr Japarov and others that the current one resembled a sunflower, a symbol of instability and subservience in the local culture.<\/p>\n<p>The flag of Kyrgyzstan, which was adopted in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, features a yellow sun &#8211; which also represents the top of a traditional Kyrgyz yurt tent &#8211; with 40 rays on a red background.<\/p>\n<p>However, the curved shape of the rays drew the attention of some lawmakers in September who argued that they looked more like sunflower petals.<\/p>\n<p>A sunflower is a symbol of fickleness and servility in the Kyrgyz culture, similar to how some European languages use a weathercock to describe someone who changes loyalty for personal gain.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of image might be offensive in a country that relies heavily on its bigger neighbours for its economic survival. Out of less than seven million people, more than a million Kyrgyz work overseas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<div class=\"ac-container ac-adaptiveCard\">\n<div class=\"ac-textBlock\">\n<p>Many people in our society have the impression that our flag resembles a sunflower, and that this is one of the factors that prevents our country from rising up,\u201d President Japarov remarked last month, speaking about the initiative.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content footer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISHKEK: On Wednesday, Kyrgyzstan\u2019s parliament approved a new design for the country\u2019s flag, following complaints from President Sadyr Japarov and others that the current one resembled a sunflower, a symbol of instability and subservience in the local culture. The flag of Kyrgyzstan, which was adopted in 1992 after the collapse of the Soviet Union, features [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2414,9924],"tags":[7611,7621,7664,7665],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Kyrgyz_Flag-scaled.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10404,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10402\/revisions\/10404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}