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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

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People do not only live on interests; they also live on beliefs, especially in very ideological areas. Unless you understand the ideological aspect of the region, you cannot understand what is happening.
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Aspect Belief People
America is interested in re-arranging the region as it sees fit.
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Country Interest Sees
No government in the world kills its people, unless it’s led by a crazy person.
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Crazy Government People
When you’re in the middle of a storm, leaving your country just because you have to leave without any reasonable reason, it means you’re quitting your country and this is treason.
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Country Leaving Mean
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.
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Book Titles United States
Simply naming objectives isn’t sufficient for a vision. If I say that I’m going to build a large palace, but I don’t have any money to do so, then that is not a vision – it’s an illusion.
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Illusion Palaces Vision
When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.
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Example Rubber Use
That the rebels or the terrorists used the chemical weapons in northern Aleppo five months ago [in 2013].
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Months Rebel Weapons
According to what we’ve been seeing recently in the area where the terrorists control, where they ban people from going to schools, ban young men from shaving their beards, and women have to be covered from head to toe.
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Men People School
It is not my democracy as a person; it is our democracy as a society.
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Democracy Persons Society
Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn’t have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value.
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Country International Invade Law Nato
From the first day I took the decision as President to defend my country.
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Country Decision President
Terrorists have been supported by tens of foreign countries, so Syria alone wouldn’t be able to face this kind of war without the help of its friends.
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Country Face Help War
The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots.
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Army People Robots
Any cooperation that doesn’t go through the Syrian government is not legal. If it’s not legal, we cannot cooperate with, and we don’t recognize and we don’t accept.
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Accept Cooperation Government
We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
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Country Law Thinking

We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

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We wouldn’t have withstood for two years and a half. We would have disintegration of the army, disintegration of the whole institution in the state.

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