“In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.” WorldStatesNationsReligiousVisionCenturyExampleMinoritiesNationalism20th CenturyTurkeysTurkishMuslim WorldArmeniansKurds Author:Feisal Abdul Rauf
“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?” WarStatesCircumstancesIndependentIndependenceIraqIranSyriaTurkeysSanctionsKurdsKurdish Author:Jalal Talabani
“Greece is a sort of American vassal; the Netherlands is the country of American bases that grow like tulip bulbs; Cuba is the main sugar plantation of the American monopolies; Turkey is prepared to kowtow before any United States proconsul and Canada is the boring second fiddle in the American symphony.” CountryStatesGrowsUnitedUnited StatesBasesPreparedBoringCanadaSugarTurkeysMonopolyGreeceSymphonyCubaBulbsFiddlePlantationsNetherlands Author:Andrei Gromyko