Gagauzia, 1990

In August 1990, the Gagauzians, a Turkic people living in Bessarabia, tried to establish a autonomous separate administration, but this was initially suppressed by Moldova. An unofficial flag had been adopted, consisting of a sky blue field (often associated with Turkic peoples and also used by Crimean Tatars and Uyghurs) and, on a yellow disk, the profile of a wolf, symbolic of the mythical origin of the Turkic peoples from whom the Gagauzians are descended.