Canadian Soldiers Training Kurdish Forces May Soon Stop Wearing Kurdish Patches On Their Uniforms

CTV: Canadian soldiers in northern Iraq may stop wearing Kurdish flag on uniforms

Canadian soldiers guiding and mentoring Kurdish forces in northern Iraq have been wearing the Kurdish flag on their uniforms in a sign of respect, but that tradition may soon end, CTV News has learned.

Although it is tradition to wear the patch of a military partner, the Kurds do not have a nation state and are seeking independence from Iraq.

U.S. troops were recently ordered to stop wearing the Kurdish flag.

Maj.-Gen. Mike Rouleau, commander of the special forces in Iraq, told CTV Chief Anchor Lisa LaFlamme that Canada is also rethinking the custom.

“We'll re-examine that and we may well take them off too,” Rouleau said.

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WNU Editor: I suspect that the Turkish embassy in Ottawa has been (or soon will be) calling the Canadian Foreign Affairs minister to complain.