Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm…

By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Kosovo. It peaked in the early 1990s; one…

— Noam Chomsky

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other…

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

Most Turkish Kurds want a quiet life and improved economic conditions. But the Kurdish regions of Turkey are mountainous; they're ill-favored climatically; they're poor;…

— Andrew Mango

The feeling of being an Iraqi unites all ethnic groups within this country. Even the Kurds, who have traditionally pushed for their own state,…

— Zalmay Khalilzad

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

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we…

— Jalal Talabani

Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is…

— Luke Harding

Iran is barely over 50% Persian, and Arabs, Baluchis, Azeris, Kurds and many other groups feel left out of the society. That regime has…

— John Bolton

The Kurds know that they won't achieve their own state by force of arms but through international recognition. And they have certainly heard what…

— Ahmed Chalabi

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

— Timothy Noah

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both…

— Curt Weldon

I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be is unclear.…

— Joshua Landis

Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts…

— Uri Avnery

It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president [Barack Obama] has consistently said - which I agree with - is…

— Hillary Clinton

The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the…

— James Clapper