Quotes About Kurdish

#1. We don't want to have a child that has many illnesses, and that will pass away after a few months. A child must have a good environment, and parents that will take care of it.
[...] It [a Kurdish state] must be a part of stability in this area.

Fuad Hussein

#2. 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

#3. There is no Kurdish problem.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

#4. We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment.

Barack Obama

#5. We used to watch executions. I mentioned that in one of my stories. There was a piece of open ground near the area where we lived and we used to play soccer there. That was where they used to hold public executions for soldiers who deserted the army and members of the Kurdish resistance.

Hassan Blasim

#6. It is the American air protection, which safeguards the freedom enjoyed by the Kurdish region. It guarantees the cultural, health and civilizational progress made in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Jalal Talabani

#7. We used to be brothers and sisters here. Kurdish, did not know he was. Turkmenians, Germans, they all existed here but never were proud of it. That pride was only distributed by the powers who aimed to destroy Turkey.

Orhan Pamuk

#8. 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

#9. We ought to be providing protective sanctuaries for the Kurdish rebels. That means finding some places where they can come and to which we will then be able to provide food and water and medical help.

Les Aspin

#10. 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

#11. Is this a Kurdish thing?'
'What?'
'Being deliberately contradictory?

Ian McDonald

#12. The Kurdish minority has been cozying up to the Iranians and given the traditional hatred between the Iranians and the Iraqis, maybe Saddam Hussein sees this as a threat to his dominance of the Kurdish area north of the 36th Parallel.

William Taylor

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim - who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

Irfan Orga

#16. The image of Kurdish blood pumping through the heart of a little Arab boy like Ahmed was not lost on anyone.

Jeremy Courtney

#17. The Kurdish people welcome the no-fly zone protection, contrary to the Iraqi regime that is against it.

Jalal Talabani

#18. Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

Noam Chomsky

#19. The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Jalal Talabani

#20. In the Kurdish part of town, he saw many children with blonde hair and blue or green eyes. There were even some with hair red as fire.

R.A. Mathis

#21. The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

Jalal Talabani

#22. 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

#23. I think what the president [Barack Obama] understands, and what he's trying to do, is that we have to support the Arab and Kurdish fighters on the ground who are actually doing the fighting.

Hillary Clinton

#24. 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

#25. If my father was alive today, he would have fought for Kurdish rights

Aleida Guevara

#26. I first visited Kurdistan in 2003. I arrived in the town of Sulaimaniyah, courtesy of smugglers who drove me across the border from Iran. Sulaimaniyah was a small, charming provincial Kurdish town.

Luke Harding

#27. My work gives me a sense of purpose that I never really had before - it gives me a lot of joy, and it would be wonderful to invite other people to get involved.

Madonna Ciccone

#28. How clever of me. I have found such a pathway into hell that I can never get back out.

Orson Scott Card

#29. Genocide is the responsibility of the entire world.

Ann Clwyd

#30. Your fear of death is not a love for life. . .

Ayn Rand

#31. With a metal heart
I came to this life,
My head was a crucible, full of elixir.
Pearl by pearl
My heart was poured,
Drop by drop
My head was splashed.
The world was entirely a magnet.

Hersh Saeed

#32. I'll never forget when I was, like, 17, and 'Highway to Hell' came on the radio, and I was like, 'Dude, listen to that guy's voice!'

Tommy Lee

#33. To a lot of us, literature's eternal significance had seemed beyond arguing - like, say, the illegality of government-sponsored torture.

Darin Strauss

#34. There's something honorable about holding out for love and not breaking up for the sake of the baby. I see people get divorced, and there is a part of me that thinks, I wonder how hard they tried?

Judd Apatow

#35. Forgive me." He cupped her cheek. "I came to you tonight because I couldn't allow the light of my life to be extinguished without seeing you one last time." "Then

Sylvain Reynard

#36. You wanted me?" I said quietly.
"All the time."
"I never saw. I thought I was the one who watched you."
"You were. That's why I started watching back.

L. H. Cosway

#37. For those of us who profess to believe in a particular religious practice, it is extremely important that we try to help each other and cultivate a feeling of affection for each other. That is the source of happiness in our life. The

Dalai Lama XIV

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Robert Duchnik

#39. Not many French producers work the American way. In France, the director decides everything, he has final cut. I'm trying to do things differently, without the Luc Besson solution.

Thomas Langmann

#40. We know more from nature than we can at will communicate.

Ralph Waldo Emerson