"Drawing and dying for borders is a European illness from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
— Salih Muslim

January 1, 1970

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Speech at the Flemish Parliament in Brussels, 18 September 2014 – quoted by Joost Jongerden, "The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK): Radical Democracy and the Right to Self-Determination Beyond the Nation-State", in The Kurdish Question Revisited, ed. Gareth Stansfield and Mohammed Shareef, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, p. 246.