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This is the flag of the Tatar Public
Center, led by Matar Mulukov. In May
and June 1991 it was hoisted on the
[Tatar] government building, but I do not know
by whom. The star and crescent are
as in the flag of Pakistan.
Ralf Stelter, 04 Mar 1999
In the seat of the indepedentist movement (it wants
Tatarstan to be independent
from Russia), I saw the it’s flag. It is
divided into two equal triangles by the
top-left-to-right-bottom diagonal:
the upper triangle is red and the lower triangle is green.
In the center of the flag there are a white crescent halfmoon with a white
star, the same symbols of Turkey’s flag. In the seat
there were two other
flags: the Turkey’s one and the Turkish
Northern Cyprian Republic.
Giuseppe Bottasini
This photograph,
taken from the book
Den Gottlosen die Hälle (The
godless belong to hell) by Peter
Scholl-Latour (publ. Bertelsmann), shows
the author at the Tatar Public Center;
on the table three flags, Soviet
Union, Tatar Public Center, and
Islamic Tatars (flag with white
crescent and star of Islam
with the Inscription "Allah akbar"
in the upper fly, flown by "normal" people).
Note that on this photo the flag of
the Tatar Public Center is attached
wrongly with the fly end to the mast.
In the background you see the flag
correctly attached to the wall.
In the same tv-series these flags could be
seen flying. Proportions varied from
nearly square to 1:2, and I think it
is a matter of manufacturing not a
matter of which region flies the flag.
As the T.C.P. flag was planned to be the
new national flag I believe it spread
out wide amongst the Tatars, so it
could have developed to a kind of
ethnic flag.
Ralf Stelter,
10 May 1999 and 25 Jul 1999
The flag was not designed with the
colours of the national flag of
Tatarstan, but the other way:
the national flag’s colours are from this flag.
Ralf Stelter, 04 Mar 1999
I’m under the impression that the diagonal red green
Idel-Ural flag with crescent and star is a recent creation,
proposed by the Tatar Public Center in the early 1990ies.
António Martins, 01 May 2000
This flag was later recognized by Tatarstan
Constitution as the flag of the Turkish peoples
of Idel-Ural (Tatarstan,
Chuvachia and
Bashkiria).
Jaume Ollé, 21 Oct 1997
"Idel" ("Ătal", in chuvash), by the way, means "Volga"
in a number of turkic languages, and this flag supposedly stands for the
turkic peoples of this area — Tatars,
Chuvash and Bashkir.
I can though guarantee that it has no currency whatsoever here in
Chuvashia (meaning that I haven’t seen it in my 20 months here, and I
do look for flags). I wouldn’t be suprised to learn that it is
used in Tataria, and perhaps also in Bashkiria, though.
António Martins, 01 May 2000
The green-red flag with the crescent moon and star can be used by
Tatars and Bashkirs only as they are Muslims. Chuvashes (Bolgars)
are also Turkic, but profess Orthodox Christianity as does a group
of Finno-Ugric nations which joined Idel-Ural
State in 1918.
Chris Kretowicz, 02 Jun 2001
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