
At the time the day was introduced, Kurdistan was seeing unprecedented economic growth followed by an opening up to the outside world. "So we said that the national dress is the symbol for the people of Kurdistan and that it has to continue to exist." "The decision was for all the peoples of Kurdistan, Turkmen, Arabs, Assyrians, Chaldean and Armenians," Dizayee said, explaining that people are invited to wear their own traditional dress on that day.