There is no Kurdish problem.


Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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Turkish citizens of Kurdish origins.
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end up a Christian club.
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Your targets can only be realized on the basis of dreams.
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Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
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If the EU is not a Christian club, this has to be proven,
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At this stage it is impossible for us to accept anything outside this.
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It was an auspicious result for the EU process,
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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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There is no problem with the world,but there is serious problem with me.
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There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
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If there is no solution; There is no problem to solve.
BRADLEY B. DALINA
There is no slope problem.
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There is no problem with Karachi.
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The problem - and it's a big problem - is that there is no parking.
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Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
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If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
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Obviously, there is no good solution to this problem.
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For there is but one problem - the problem of human relations. We forget that there is no hope or jo...
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It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real probl...
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There is no easy answers to difficult problem, only hard work.
LILY CHATTERJEE
You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem
WILLIAM ROTSLER
There is no problem in this world that cannot be solved.
FLORA NWAPA
Billie Joe: "Do you have a problem? I have a gun. I'll shoot you. No problem."
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There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.
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We have always understood the Kurdish people's ambitions,
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CHERYL TALLEY
Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
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There was no forewarning. There was no discussion or any indication that there was a problem.
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The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
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There is no single right answer or path forward, but there is one right way to frame the problem.
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There are always those that say this is a 2020 problem, there is no urgency. But anyone who has stud...
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