12 Kurdish Quotes for You to Enjoy

In the battle for Kobane on the Syrian border, everyone talks about the enemy - IS - and the frightening ideas that drive them. No one talks about the Kurdish defenders and what inspires them. Adam Curtis

Battle Enemy Drive Everyone Syrian Border About Inspires No-One Ideas Talks Kurdish Frightening Them Defenders

As we used to say when I was privileged to be the commander there, Nineveh province has the most diverse human terrain in all of Iraq - Sunni Arab majority to be sure, but also Shia Arabs, numerous Kurdish communities, and they are broken out into several different political parties. David Petraeus

Broken Political Numerous Say Several Arab Out Arabs Sunni Diverse Most Parties Also Terrain Majority Sure Commander Kurdish Iraq Province Political Parties Privileged Human Different Used Communities

I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens. Osman Baydemir

Attitude Government People Cause Judiciary Through Had Majority Kurdish Up Nationalist Justified Turks Lens Stance View Who Media Here

The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state. Peter Bergen

Government Will Creation State Never Kurdish Turkish Tolerate

There is no Kurdish problem. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Problem Kurdish

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever. Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Matter Whatever Group Arabic Attempts Over Fair Another Exercise Kurdish Sovereignty Not Fair Turkish Ethnic Ethnicity

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north. Richard Engel

Three Before State Sunni Were Kurdish South Iraq Provinces North Modern Middle Created Separate Initially Largely Here

Whenever a Kurd wants to measure the depth of some foreign leader's commitment to Kurdish autonomy, he listens for one particular word. That word is 'federal.' Anyone who will say he favors Kurdish federalism can be counted a friend of the Kurds. Timothy Noah

Commitment Word Will Leader Say Favors Some Federal Counted Federalism He Particular Foreign Kurdish Kurds Friend Listens Whenever Anyone Wants Autonomy Depth Measure Who

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves. Timothy Noah

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one index is the flight of more than a million Kurds from the countryside to the unofficial Kurdish capital, Diyarbakir, from 1990 to 1994, as the Turkish army was devastating the countryside. Noam Chomsky

Army Conservative Unofficial 1990s More Devastating Category Countryside Kosovo Kurdish Falls Kurds Very Than Repression Estimates Turkish Capital Flight Peaked Million Early Early 1990s

The Kurdish people are a partner for the Israeli people. Ayelet Shaked

People Partner Israeli Kurdish

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