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We can not talk about Iraqi Kurdistan or Federal Iraq as a functioning thing because Iraqi Kurdistan's not, the reality is that public services are intermittent, opportunity is zero, corruption, nepotism and violence is ongoing and regular. – Hafsa Halawa	Found on CNN 2 years ago
These are terrorist organizations and they are the offshoots of the PKK( Kurdistan Workers' Party). – Recep Tayyip Erdo?an	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We had many dreams for Kurdistan but these have gone - we've lost it all. – Ali Majid	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Prime Minister Abadi's the favorite to win, and Prime Minister Abadi's trying to pursue this Iraq-wide strategy, prime Minister Abadi came to the Kurdistan region and Prime Minister Abadi came to Sunni areas in Nineveh and Anbar and now Prime Minister Abadi's in the south, Prime Minister Abadi's trying to cover the whole country. – Renad Mansour	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Migration will have a negative impact on the Yazidi religion in Iraq and Kurdistan. We encourage Yazidis to remain. – Qewel Bahzad	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty. – Diman Bayeez	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The biggest problem right now is the status of the Nineveh Plain as a disputed territory between the Iraqi Central Government and the regional government of Kurdistan. – Robert Nicholson	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The Kurds claim Tuz Khurmato is part of the Kurdistan region and we believe it belongs to the central government of Iraq, we won't compromise on that. – Haji Redha	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Once Kurdistan becomes independent, we will work towards that. – Hiwa Afandi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We would rather live in a country called Kurdistan, be it physical or in cyberspace. – Hiwa Afandi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Those who imprisoned us within these geographical boundaries do not have the same leverage in cyberspace. In the internet we choose our own borders, we would rather live in a country called Kurdistan, be it physical or in cyberspace. – Hiwa Afandi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The interruption from Kurdistan is significant because they were a big part of the increase in exports from Iraq, it is prompt supplies and these are large volumes. – Olivier Jakob	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We know there are people who have conducted such acts before as retaliation of massacres in Kurdistan. – Top PKK leader Cemil Bayik	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If the people of Kurdistan are waiting for someone else to present the right of self-determination as a gift, independence will never be obtained. That right exists and the people of Kurdistan must demand it and put it into motion. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) forces appear to be spearheading a concerted campaign to forcibly displace Arab communities by destroying entire villages in areas they have recaptured from IS in northern Iraq, the forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes. – Donatella Rovera	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It's a troubling time right now in Kurdistan economically. – Qubad Talabani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Instead of enthusiasm for the ballot box there is the silence of the coffins, less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes. – Idris Baluken	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes. – Idris Baluken	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don’t even watch the news anymore because I ca n’t imagine what those people are going through at one point Said Josh had the entire U.S. military protecting them, and then they were gone. And then another group of guys, ISIS, came in and just started slaughtering them by the thousands. And there is nowhere to run. I couldn't imagine that. And I sit at home. The war drew down. The war technically ended for conventional warfare which put me and my brother basically out of a job. I'm still able to fight and the opportunity arose … James lit the fire … and I'm going. That’s it. I need to help out. James, 23, is the baby of the bunch, the only member of the family with blue eyes. He also served two tours in Afghanistan as an infantryman and registered for college when he got home. But James said he still had a burning desire to serve, and wanted to gain experience as a combat cameraman. So nearly a year ago, he started planning a trip to Kurdistan in northern Iraq to document the fight. After months of discussions with his brother and father, the mission evolved. They decided they ’d all go together and film what they could, but their new goal was to help defeat some of the most dangerous and ruthless men on the planet. – Said Josh	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The PKK forces must move the battlefields away from Kurdistan. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again. – Massoud Barzani	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We neither agree on the PKK to announce that the ceasefire is over, nor do we agree on Kurdistan region to be bombarded, because this is not the solution. – Falah Mustafa Bakir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This has affected us negatively, because it is the mountainous border areas of the Kurdistan region that have been bombarded, people have been displaced, people have been injured. ... Therefore we hope that both sides will go back to the ceasefire. – Falah Mustafa Bakir	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Unfortunately the (Kurdistan) region has not complied with it until now. – Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We can not talk about Iraqi Kurdistan or Federal Iraq as a functioning thing because Iraqi Kurdistan's not, the reality is that public services are intermittent, opportunity is zero, corruption, nepotism and violence is ongoing and regular.

– Hafsa Halawa

Found on CNN
2 years ago

These are terrorist organizations and they are the offshoots of the PKK( Kurdistan Workers' Party).

– Recep Tayyip Erdo?an

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We had many dreams for Kurdistan but these have gone - we've lost it all.

– Ali Majid

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Prime Minister Abadi's the favorite to win, and Prime Minister Abadi's trying to pursue this Iraq-wide strategy, prime Minister Abadi came to the Kurdistan region and Prime Minister Abadi came to Sunni areas in Nineveh and Anbar and now Prime Minister Abadi's in the south, Prime Minister Abadi's trying to cover the whole country.

– Renad Mansour

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Migration will have a negative impact on the Yazidi religion in Iraq and Kurdistan. We encourage Yazidis to remain.

– Qewel Bahzad

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I was very poor. I have schizophrenia and was just diagnosed with blood cancer, and my only daughter wasn't treating me well. I was borrowing money from people for the treatment. That was in June 2014, and she described her situation to a cab driver named Mahmoud in her home city of Kirkuk. He was ISIS and said if I joined, they would treat me well and pay me, she says. I said I would join on one condition : That they make me a suicide bomber and put me out of my misery. Mahmoud was killed fighting in Hawija, and two ISIS members found her number in his phone. She – along with her now ex-husband – were recruited. K.S. says she did not receive any formal training as a combatant, and did not pledge allegiance to ISIS, but admits that she allowed two militants to stay at her home – she now suspects that one was a spy for the Kurdish security forces. But when she was scheduled to put on the suicide vest, she got cold feet. She fled with the idea of seeking asylum in Europe, but the Kurds picked her up before she could leave. I told them I did all these bad things I didn't do because I wanted to be executed. I still wanted to die, K.S. says, saying that she attempted to kill herself in jail, too, with a kitchen knife. Now Iam thankful to God. I know I have committed no crime. Kurdish authorities beg to differ. According to the deputy manager of the correctional center, Zhino Azad, K.S. was deeply entrenched in ISIS, coordinating for their agents and being a guard at their female prisons – possibly filled with captured Yazidi sex slaves. Even her daughter, a lawyer, is terrified of her, Zhino Azad tells FoxNews.com. She is … a little psychotic. That's the type of people ISIS takes advantage of. K.S. does n’t mind prison at all. It is like heaven in this jail, she says. Here, she is safe from ISIS, is fed and receives medical treatment. I get to read the Koran all day and sleep, K.S. says with a bright smile. And I interpret dreams for the other women. A.H., a 35-year-old mother with a small tribal tattoo on the tip of her nose, also spoke to FoxNews.com. She was issued a life sentence, which was reduced to 20 years, then 15, because she has young children -- six of them who are between 5 and 16 years old. They are being looked after by the second of her husband's four wives. He is in jail now too, she says. At first, A.H. maintains that she was working at a civilian hospital that was controlled by ISIS, but that she never treated wounded fighters, but it does n’t take long for her to let her guard down, especially after the prison official with us begins wandering in and out of the room. I went to ISIS Diman Bayeez and said I would do anything, clean hospitals, if they gave me a salary – $ 260 a month, she says. So I was setting up IVs and injections for the fighters. While she admits to having sworn allegiance to the Caliphate, A.H. also claims she was a spy for Iraqi intelligence, and, fearful that ISIS members would find out, she fled to Kurdistan in early 2016. We have problems, especially with the new prisoners, radicalizing others, so we try to keep the terrorists separate. - Diman Bayeez, manager of the Women and Childrens Prison of Erbil She says all evidence of her spying was taken from her at an Iraqi Army checkpoint. Of course I regret [ helping ISIS ]. But my family was hungry. My husband was old, she pleads. I feel betrayed. They took my phone, my proof I was helping them. They all say they aren't guilty.

– Diman Bayeez

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The biggest problem right now is the status of the Nineveh Plain as a disputed territory between the Iraqi Central Government and the regional government of Kurdistan.

– Robert Nicholson

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The Kurds claim Tuz Khurmato is part of the Kurdistan region and we believe it belongs to the central government of Iraq, we won't compromise on that.

– Haji Redha

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Once Kurdistan becomes independent, we will work towards that.

– Hiwa Afandi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We would rather live in a country called Kurdistan, be it physical or in cyberspace.

– Hiwa Afandi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Those who imprisoned us within these geographical boundaries do not have the same leverage in cyberspace. In the internet we choose our own borders, we would rather live in a country called Kurdistan, be it physical or in cyberspace.

– Hiwa Afandi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The interruption from Kurdistan is significant because they were a big part of the increase in exports from Iraq, it is prompt supplies and these are large volumes.

– Olivier Jakob

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We know there are people who have conducted such acts before as retaliation of massacres in Kurdistan.

– Top PKK leader Cemil Bayik

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If the people of Kurdistan are waiting for someone else to present the right of self-determination as a gift, independence will never be obtained. That right exists and the people of Kurdistan must demand it and put it into motion.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) forces appear to be spearheading a concerted campaign to forcibly displace Arab communities by destroying entire villages in areas they have recaptured from IS in northern Iraq, the forced displacement of civilians and the deliberate destruction of homes and property without military justification, may amount to war crimes.

– Donatella Rovera

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's a troubling time right now in Kurdistan economically.

– Qubad Talabani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Instead of enthusiasm for the ballot box there is the silence of the coffins, less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes.

– Idris Baluken

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Less than a week to the election, and everywhere in Kurdistan is under the shadow of guns and the sound of warplanes.

– Idris Baluken

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I don’t even watch the news anymore because I ca n’t imagine what those people are going through at one point Said Josh had the entire U.S. military protecting them, and then they were gone. And then another group of guys, ISIS, came in and just started slaughtering them by the thousands. And there is nowhere to run. I couldn't imagine that. And I sit at home. The war drew down. The war technically ended for conventional warfare which put me and my brother basically out of a job. I'm still able to fight and the opportunity arose … James lit the fire … and I'm going. That’s it. I need to help out. James, 23, is the baby of the bunch, the only member of the family with blue eyes. He also served two tours in Afghanistan as an infantryman and registered for college when he got home. But James said he still had a burning desire to serve, and wanted to gain experience as a combat cameraman. So nearly a year ago, he started planning a trip to Kurdistan in northern Iraq to document the fight. After months of discussions with his brother and father, the mission evolved. They decided they ’d all go together and film what they could, but their new goal was to help defeat some of the most dangerous and ruthless men on the planet.

– Said Josh

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The PKK forces must move the battlefields away from Kurdistan.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again.

– Massoud Barzani

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We neither agree on the PKK to announce that the ceasefire is over, nor do we agree on Kurdistan region to be bombarded, because this is not the solution.

– Falah Mustafa Bakir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This has affected us negatively, because it is the mountainous border areas of the Kurdistan region that have been bombarded, people have been displaced, people have been injured. ... Therefore we hope that both sides will go back to the ceasefire.

– Falah Mustafa Bakir

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Unfortunately the (Kurdistan) region has not complied with it until now.

– Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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