"The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world."
"My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy."
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Source: Drafting A Constitution. editorials.voa.gov. August 02, 2005.
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