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The nation-state is the historical method of realizing the essence of the national outlook. By means of a nation-state the values belonging to a nation are integrated. Such integration regulates national life historically and gives it direction. Establishing a nation-state is the expression of a nation’s respect for its history and its trust in the future. A nation state cannot be like a tree which has been brought from a different country and climate and re-planted and which does not flourish but dies because it is unable to adapt to the new climate. On the contrary, it must be born and bred in the soil of this land, rooted deeply in it, and stretching up into its sky. It is certain that imitation does not yield positive results in any field, and the dangers of imitation for the interests, benefit and the future of the people and nation are of an enormous scale and dimension.

The establishment of a state is the action of a nation gaining existence for itself. New values, which did not exist before, in the social, economic, political and spiritual fields are gained.

To be respectful to other nations and to respect and revere the faiths and principles of the adherents of other religions lies in the Türkmen’s blood. The Türkmens are of a nation which is generous, humanitarian, just, open-hearted, patient, contented and sincere. Showing the utmost respect to other nations has always been a characteristic of the Türkmens. There have not been any national disputes and conflicts among the Türkmens, and let there never be in the future either.

The internal disturbances, which have happened in the last eight centuries, taught the Türkmens well what separatist movements mean. For eight centuries, states near and far have pursued the policy of ‘divide, destroy and rule’, instigated


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