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Read through the most famous quotes from Jalal Talabani
Justice for the major perpetrators cannot be separated from the vindication of the rights of the individual victim. ↗
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight. ↗
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference. ↗
Conciliation is not capitulation, nor is compromise to be deemed equivalent to imbalanced concession. ↗
Personal life and health
Jalal Talabani is married to Hero Ibrahim Ahmed daughter of Ibrahim Ahmed a lieutenant of Mullah Mustafa. -led Coalition in the invasion of Iraq. The Kurdish separatist movement collapsed in March 1975 after Iran ended their support in exchange for a border agreement with Iraq.
He is the first non-Arab president of Iraq although Abdul Kareem Qasim was of partial Kurdish heritage. He was a prominent member of the Interim Iraq Governing Council which was establiJalal Talabanid following the overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime by the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Talabani is a member of the Socialist International.