Syrien startet eine Initiative, um seine Nationalflagge in die Symbole der weltweiten Emojis aufzunehmen.

Abdul Salam Hekel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology in the Syrian Interim Government, announced the official implementation of a plan to include the new Syrian national flag emoji on various global digital platforms.

This step is part of the government's efforts to enhance the Syrian national identity in the digital space.

Minister Hekel published details of the initiative on his official account on the "X" platform, indicating that his ministry is currently in communication with several major tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Samsung, as well as communication apps like WhatsApp, Instagram, and X, to add the Syrian flag to their approved emoji libraries.

Hekel added that the Unicode Consortium, responsible for globally unifying digital symbols, stated that the decision to add or modify flags is the responsibility of each individual tech platform's policy and is not directly under the jurisdiction of the consortium.

This step is part of a broader strategy aimed at solidifying Syrian national symbols on digital platforms, within the transitional phase the country is going through following the major political changes that followed the fall of the Assad regime.