Meaning of Turkic Union Region's Flag

The colors that cover each half of the flag are sky blue and Black. Black is the color symbolizing soil and underworld while sky blue stands for sky and heavens.

Tree that stands on lower right bottom is a "beech tree" symbolizing tree of life/life tree that reaches heavens and also plays role in many Turkic epics and inscriptions (Oghuz Khagan legend, Yenisei Inscriptions etc.) about Turks' creation. Pine/Evergreen tree is also one of the more prominent trees that passes in mythos but ultimately particular breed of the tree is unimportant. Point is one of the cults that ancient Turks had was tree cult and they respected nature and were intertwined with it.

Symbol on top left is more complex, with grey wolf symbolizing Gokturk and Oghuz Khagan Legends, former telling about Turk creation myth, Ashina Clan and origins of Gokturks and latter giving wolf like features to sons of Oghuz Khagan.

Crescent part of the symbol is divided to write 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 which means "TÜRK" which could also be written as 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰚. Both variations are correct, Kül Tigin Inscription writes it as 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰰 while Bilge Khagan Inscription writes it as 𐱅𐰇𐰼𐰚.

White crescent that's often associated with wolves also is stylized in a way that looks like a wolf's White fangs. This also helps against most people's association of crescent with Islam by making it not a prominent symbol even though crescent and star is an ancient symbol that was used even before Christ. Replacing star which can symbolize Virgin Mary (a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars 12:1) also overall gives more secular feel.

Brown parts in the middle symbolize tree of life's branches and trunk reaching to the heavens from ground and connect both soil and sky. In the middle there is a golden bow and 3 silver arrows that's in Epic of Oghuz Khagan which symbolize Turks spreading both East and West going all around the world and building nations. White inside the tree symbolizes "Kut", holy light and right to rule given by Tengri.

The flag was created by Erli for Turkic Union on 15/05/2022.