Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance…

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

There are sort of Kurdish districts there in Mosul, or there used to be, but the Kurds mostly fled or were driven out. The…

— Patrick Cockburn

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to…

— Wayne White

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is…

— Ann Coulter

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

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