The new Syrian flag was raised on Friday at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the presence of Syria’s Foreign ...

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In response, a Kurdish lawmaker brought the flag to the legislature to defend it. The controversy began when Ankara Mayor Mansur Yavas, a member of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP ...