How to pronounce “kurd” in English

Kurdistan, Iraq's Kurdistan, who also are close to IRGC.

want Kurdish-controlled territory carved out of their national borders, particularly if Kurdish-controlled territory happens to have a lot of oil

The Kurds have been very, very useful allies, helpful allies in fighting ISIS.

The Kurdish Peshmerga, the Afghan fighters, the Iraqi fighters, they don't even know what it is.

Alan Kurdi, which I write about in the book, was the little boy, tragically 3 and 1/2 in trainers face down drowned on the beach.

the Kurdistan and Turkey. Well, if that were true, would Turkish companies be taking massive pieces of new energy infrastructure and development and all

A beautiful project in Kurdistan in Iraq to paint pro-LGBT murals on public streets.

So the Kurds are an autonomous tribal group.

You The Kurds are in there.

They were all Kurdish people, and all the volunteers there were Arabic.

So naturally the Kurds, who'd always been aspiring to a kind of autonomy there, just filled the vacuum and started creating their own zones up there.

Just like the Kurds are also not just in the north but scattered all around.

So the Kurds and a lot of the Sunni tribal leaders are, basically, of the mind that you can't trust Maliki.

than the Kurds without their own State the essence one of the essence of

suicide bombing kurds resuming their rebellion and the syrian and iranian governments plotting new ways to

these new Kurdish energy fields? I suspect they wouldn't. There's a lot of money to be made in crossber trade between Turkey and the Kurdish region.

And the Kurds know that if they declare independence, jig is off.

But we were all born in Kurdistan.

Now in the current situation you have Kurds and you have FSA involved, whatnot.

They dream of having an independent Kurdish state, which of course is extremely threatening to all of the states that they're part of, because those states don't

And there was a person in Iraqi Kurdistan, actually, who said to a person who was there from this country, from a group called Christian Peacemaker

who are serving in the Kurdistan Peshmerga fighting Islamic state in Syria.

The group happened to be the PKK-- Kurdish group.

Iraq that we should just let the Kurds secede and the sunnes and the Shiites separate and uh second have you had a

Second people that have been problematic are the Kurds, who are primarily in the

And I guess we're working with the Kurds to a degree or something.

Unarmed Civilian Protection. This Kurdish gentleman said, well, we're going to try and do it from here out with nonviolence.

So I ran to the boat as I was screaming in Kurdish like, stop, you cannot put your children into water.

because about 15% of the Syrian population is Kurdish, and they've taken advantage of the lawlessness, if you like,

In reality, there was a Kurdish spy, as there is in the film.

I had to find myself a lawyer, who turned out to be a Sunni Kurd.

Then they went to work for Saddam Hussein, where they helped crush the Shiite and Kurdish insurrection of 1991.

And I named my life "Going Through the Struggles," because there's a situation back in Kurdistan.

And I was in Erbil, which is up in Kurdistan.

I mean, there's potentially a regional war involving the Kurds and all of the different nations around Kurdish territory that don't

So although loosely up in the north you have what's generally referred to as a Kurdish belt,

And we know what is happening in Turkey-- the purge, the targeting of both the Kurds and the Islamic State.

And a lot of people ask us about how it's like, where's better-- here or Kurdistan-- and they really ask about the food and how we make it.

And it's like a very safe place, but I did tell my parents that I was going to Kurdistan.

I don't know exactly what they're going to do when ISIS is gone and different militia groups that they were allied with, including the Kurds,

And he is waging a war, a merciless war, against the Kurdish population in the Southeast.

And during that time, in November-- actually it was before then-- we saw that first picture of Alan Kurdi washed up on the shores of Turkey.

and has carved out what it's calling a safe zone right up in the north there, to make sure that the Kurds can't take over

Mustafa Kemal and his idea of Turkification, which was terrible for the Turks, by the way-- sorry, terrible for the Kurds.

And I had noticed it in Turkey, that they sort of just in passing, that they kind of did the same with Kurds.

on behalf of the Iraqis, before we left-- and refusing to have a fair deal over oil revenues with the Kurds.

this. um in in terms of of you know so where I see the markets going forward on the Kurdish region I think there's