In northern Iraq, the Kurdish "nation" is self-defended, democratic and prosperous, its success based on the fiercely independent nature of Muslim Kurds.

For centuries, most Kurds saw themselves more as members of a particular clan or tribe than as a part of a Kurdish nation.

Create new definitions for the future of the Kurdish nation within the international arena.

The party refuses the separation of Kurdish nation between different nation-states and renders illegitimate all international arrangements that support this status quo.

I am talking about the Kurdish nation.

They are enemies of Turkey and Iran, which have sizable Kurdish populations and reject calls for an independent Kurdish nation.

I want the Kurdish nation to receive their fair share of your grand scheme with the President of Iraq and the plans that you to have for the future.

However, there are crucial misstatements of facts pertaining to the Kurdish nation and its country, Kurdistan.

In this meeting, he declared that the state had done everything to destroy the fraternity between the Turkish and Kurdish nations.

Leaders of the Kurds in northern Iraq say they oppose an independent Kurdish nation.