Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabani
Jalal Talabaniis an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the sixth President of Iraq from 2005 to 2014. He was the first non-Arab president of Iraq, although Abdul Karim Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He is known as "Mam Jalal" meaning "uncle Jalal" among Kurdish people...
NationalityIraqi
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 November 1933
CountryIraq
iraq soil different
Iraq is not occupied, but there are foreign forces on its soil, which is different.
past justice causes
The justice of our cause must be reflected in the manner in which we rectify the crimes of the past.
determination self people
The Kurdish people have the right of self-determination like every other nation in the world.
change believe iraq
I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East.
change moving army
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.
change years able
We must acknowledge that for scores of years the Iraqis have offered martyrs and victims but have not been able to change the regime.
military alternatives currents
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
fighting forgiving democracy
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.
iraq darkness dictator
The brutal regime of the dictator fell ... the regime that ruled Iraq for decades, the decades of darkness. The decades that were of tyranny.
war independent iran
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?
reality thinking wishful-thinking
Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.
children war lying
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.
country iraq promise
under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.
trust lovers interest
Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests.