"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
"I always tell the Kurds who defend independence: Let's say we declared the independent Kurdish state and Syria, Iran, Iraq and Turkey imposed sanctions on us, without waging a war. How would we survive under those circumstances?"
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Source: Talabani: War against Turkey equal to war against democracy. Turkish Daily News, September 14, 2007.
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