Osman Baydemir quotes
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“I have had it up to here with the prosecutions, the government's attitude, the judiciary, the media's stance and the majority of Turks who view the Kurdish people's justified cause through a nationalist lens.”
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“All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.”
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“I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.”
-- Osman BaydemirSource : "After the Hunger Strike" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. November 27, 2012.
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“In primary school, every day and especially on Fridays, I was supposed to say, 'I am Turkish, and I am righteous and hardworking,' But all those things did not actually turn us into Turks. This system is somehow creating fake personalities.”
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“In Turkey, we have lived almost everything that could be lived; war and torture... The war concept was consumed to its limits. But there is only one way we have not tried: negotiations, peace, and talking.”
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“If someone tried to assimilate you for years, if your language was forbidden, if the names of your hometown were changed, what would do you but revolt.”
-- Osman Baydemir
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“Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed.”
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Source : "Adam Baldwin Talks THE LAST SHIP, Auditioning for Michael Bay, Striking Up a Friendship with Eric Dane, Looking Back on FIREFLY and THE INSIDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 6, 2014.
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“Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.”
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Source : Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.
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