Jalal Talabani
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Biography
Jalal Talabani was an Iraqi Kurdish politician who served as the 6th president of Iraq from 2005 to 2014, as well as the president of the Governing Council of Iraq.
"All I wanted was to be a university teacher."
"A military coup needs a sacrifice and courage that you can't find in an army without morale."
"We must provide all kinds of freedom, personal and economic, to all Iraqis. I will fight for that."
"Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy."
"I shall stand for freedom of thought and expression in a place where it has been trampled and penalized."
"We believe that an Iraqi founding national assembly, freely elected, must decide the future of Iraq."