Osman Baydemir Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Osman Baydemir:

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.
~Osman Baydemir


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/osman-baydemir-quotes/#6c65aabb

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.
~Osman Baydemir


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/osman-baydemir-quotes/#ee2f76ad

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 Baydemir


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/osman-baydemir-quotes/#54222633

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.
~Osman Baydemir


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/osman-baydemir-quotes/#d73bdfe8

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.
~Osman Baydemir


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/osman-baydemir-quotes/#ffa8c6e6

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