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Kurdish Quotes

We’ve collected the best Kurdish Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Peter Bergen, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Les Aspin, Pat Buchanan, David Petraeus. Use them as an inspiration.

1
The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.
Peter Bergen
2
There is no Kurdish problem.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
3
Long-term, we must figure out a way that the Kurdish territory within Iraq operates with a certain amount of autonomy so that they feel comfortable and safe going back.
Les Aspin
4
A U.S. war with Iran could end with a Kurdish enclave in Iran’s northwest tied to Iraqi Kurdistan, Iran’s Azeri north drifting toward Azerbaijan, and a Balochi enclave in the south linked to Pakistan‘s largest province, Balochistan, leaving Iran only Persia.
Pat Buchanan
5
The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one of us, including myself.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
6
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
7
The Kurds will not be allowed to have an independent country because Turkey wouldn’t stand for it; they have their own Kurdish population.
Molly Ivins
8
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
9
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
10
The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.
Jalal Talabani
11
Under Saddam Hussein, the nation of Iraq possessed and used chemical weapons against both their own Kurdish population and Iranian military forces.
Charles B. Rangel
12
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
13
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
14
We must openly call for the establishment of a Kurdish state that separates Iran from Turkey, one which will be friendly towards Israel.
Ayelet Shaked
15
The Kurdish people are a partner for the Israeli people.
Ayelet Shaked