14 Kurds Quotes for You to Enjoy

We respect the will of our citizens, whether they are Kurds or Arabs or Turkmen, but will not allow an illegal and unconstitutional procedure done under the threat of weapons to yield results. Haider al-Abadi

Respect Will Our Arabs Citizens Weapons Threat Results Allow Unconstitutional Kurds Yield Done Procedure Whether Illegal

Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way. Noah Feldman

Nation National Other Relative Way Ways Some Hussein Perceive Remain Never Saddam Saddam Hussein Most Identified Identity Least Kurds Truly Iraqi National Identity Closely Disenfranchised Themselves Who Groups Incorporated

The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief. Pete Hoekstra

Military Enough Relief Also Equipment Kurds Iraq Just Humanitarian Need

In the exodus out of Iraq, we're seeing the effects of just leaving. We left before there was control of chemical weapons stockpiles, without a status-of-forces agreement. We left before the Sunni and Kurds we fought with and fought alongside with were stable, or without empowering them. We left on a political rhetoric. Ryan Zinke

Political Before Control Out Sunni Weapons Seeing Alongside Empowering Without Chemical Leaving Were Kurds Iraq Left Exodus Effects Stable Just Rhetoric Them Agreement Fought

Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered. Sam Richards

Care Power Back Crimes Hussein About Somehow He Saddam Saddam Hussein His Iran Kurds Mattered American Oil Stake Suddenly Things

Syria is a multi-confessional state: in addition to Sunni and Shia Muslims, there are Alawites, Orthodox and other Christian confessions, Druzes, and Kurds. Sergei Lavrov

Christian Other State Addition Syria Muslims Sunni Kurds Confessions Orthodox

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

My priorities? Assisting our allies, the Kurds, in their fight against ISIS. Trent Franks

Fight Our Allies Priorities Kurds Against Assisting

While our goals in Syria were never clearly enumerated by then-President Obama or President Trump, throughout the war one of our most committed and effective allies in the fight has been the Kurds. S.E. Cupp

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

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