US Rep. Eliot Engel: Kurds are entitled to their own country
“If there are peoples around the world that are entitled to have their own country, why not the Kurds?”, asked US Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
He stressed that the Kurds “have been loyal and strong allies of the United States,” as he affirmed, “I am very sympathetic to the Kurds.”
“We’ve worked with them, and I think the United States cannot, and should not, and will not abandon them,” he stated.
Engel noted that in four different countries, the Kurds are minorities, and “they’re treated like minorities, unfortunately.”
“I think the United States ought to keep the ties that we have established” with our “Kurdish allies intact, and let everyone know that we’re not going to turn our backs on them.”
