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 images by Randy Young, 27 April 2023
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The Azerbaijan Trade Unions Confederation (ATUC, Azərbaycan Həmkarlar 
İttifaqları Konfederasiyası) is the national trade union organization of 
Azerbaijan. The ATUC encompasses more than 17,000 trade units across the 
country, has a membership of more than 1.3 million, and is headquartered in the 
capital city of Baku, according to the
Wikipedia entry. The 
ATUC is itself a member of the International Trade Union Confederation. According to the 
organization's website (translated into English through Google), the 
organization was founded on 5 February 1993. On 24 February 1994, the law "On 
Trade Unions" was adopted by the Azerbaijan government and went into effect. 
(https://ahik.org/en/) 
The ATUC flag can be seen in several photographs 
online, including at 
https://ahik.org/en/2022/03/atuc-chairman-sattar-mohbaliyev-meets-with-secretary-general-of-the-european-trade-union-confederation/
https://ahik.org/en/2022/07/atuc-chairman-sattar-mohbaliyev-met-with-his-kazakh-colleagues/
https://ahik.org/en/2022/11/atuc-chairman-sattar-mohbaliyev-was-elected-as-the-vice-president-of-ituc/
The flag consists of the organization's circular seal centered on a white field.
Randy Young, 27 April 2023
While the first source does display the flag with yellow crescent and star, the other two display flags on which these are white. That means that there seem to exist two variants of the flag, one of which is either unofficial or an earlier official one.
Tomislav Todorovic, 27 April 2023