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Jalal Talabani Biography

Jalal Talabani (Kurdish: جەلال تاڵەبانی Celal Tallebanî, Arabic: جلال طالباني‎ Jalāl Ṭālabānī; 1933 – 3 October 2017) was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as President of Iraq from 2006 to 2014, as well as the President of the Governing Council of Iraq. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as Mam Jalal (uncle Jalal) among Iraqi Kurds and Arabs.

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Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim.

Rights, Justice, Individual, Separated, Vindication

The brutal regime of the dictator fell. . . the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.

Iraq, Darkness, Dictator, Decades, Fell

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

Fighting, Forgiving, Democracy, Generous, Fight

To move any regime you need to have co-operation and co-ordination between Kurds, Shia Arabs, Sunni Arabs, the people and the army. Until we have this we cannot change the regime.

Army, Change, Kurds, Moving, Shia

We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.

Children, Iraqi, Killing, Lying, Make, War

Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.

Iraq, Different, Soil, Foreign, Occupied

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

Determination, Mean, Self, Independence, Autonomy, Confederacy

A greater international role is important to lift some of the burden from the shoulders of the United States.

Important, International, Roles, Shoulders, United, United States

Rather, it is through conciliation and compromise that we are building a fair Iraq, a just state for all its peoples.

Building, Compromise, Conciliation, Iraq

I voted 'yes' and I urge all Iraqis, no matter their different ethnicities and religions. . . to vote 'yes' to the constitution

Constitution, Different, Ethnicity, Matter, Urge

My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.

Love, Peace, Doors, Violence, Peaceful, Door

The Western governments will be encouraged and persuaded to deal with the real representatives and listen to the real voice of the Kurdish people.

Real, Government, Voice, Governments, Encouraged, Persuaded

I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized.

Expression, Freedom, Freedom Of Expression, Freedom Of Thought, Place, Stand

Iraq is not going to starve to death because of the absence of assistance from Arab countries.

Absence, Arab, Assistance, Country, Death, Iraq

We are not denying that Turkey has a right to defend itself from extremists but some of its actions are not serving any democratic purpose in Turkey or in Iraq. This will not benefit the relations between the two countries.

Country, Defend, Democratic, Turkey, Turkeys, Two

We are trying to persuade all the Iraqi opposition to come breathe freedom in Iraq and use liberated Kurdistan as a base for our common struggle.

Breathe, Come, Iraq, Iraqi, Struggle, Trying

The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.

Determination, Self, People, Kurdish, Right, World

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Action, Actions, Responsibility, Take, Taking Responsibility

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

Reality, Thing, Thinking, Wishful, Wishful Thinking

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

Als, Side, Talabani, United, United States, Want

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