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12 - The weapons industry is very important

to the economy of the Western democracies.

I'm part of it.

I've spent most of my career working in conflict areas

and my work has been entirely funded

by states and international organizations.

Now that being said, today

I'm here to talk about human dignity.

Can one measure human dignity in money?

Last week, I attended a meeting in Helsinki

where it was decided that Hamina Steel,

a state-owned company, would it be allowed

to sell a weapons worth $100 million to Saudi Arabia?

Where is the human dignity in that?

Why does the Republic of Finland sell weapons

to a country that does not respect human rights

a country that would use those weapons

to harm people and the environment?

The weapons in question are on their way

to Saudi Arabia right now, I did not manage

to prevent this arms deal, I failed.

But, I will never give up.

I will never turn my back on him on humanity

and that is precisely why I decided to come here today

to ask how in the light of this knowledge

can any Finnish politician call himself or herself

a decision-maker who respects human dignity?

We don't just close our eyes.

We are actually complicit in the crimes taking place

right now as we sit here and chit-chat.

I'm ashamed of being European.

I'm ashamed of being a Finn.

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- Foreign Minister Rantala,

what did you think of Ann-Mari Sundell's speech?

Do you agree with your predecessor?

- I think all Finns should now

look in the mirror and ask themselves

whether they are building a better society,

a better world or tearing apart

the basic foundation of a civil society?

- But Finland is selling guns to Saudi Arabia?

Can you confirm that?

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- [Ann-Mari] I can't answer right now.

Please leave a message.

66 - The Finnish state demands the UN Security Council

ratify new disarmament agreement,

which employs heavy methods to root arms exports.

- [Reporter] The United Nation's Secretary General,

Theo Slobo, has not yet commented on the speech.

- [Ann-Mari] The weapons in question

are on their way to Saudi Arabia right now.

I did not to manage to prevent this arms deal, I failed.

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- There you are

Why don't you answer the phone?

I called you like a million times.

I was worried

- I'm an ex-peacemaker.

- Ah, come on.

What did you expect, the Nobel Prize?

Listen, it was a good speech.

- I know.

Come on, Theo, why are you here?

- The Turkish government and the Kurdish Party

are ready to start the peace negotiations.

- Well, peace is impossible as long

as Berkay Esmer keeps Binav Bashur in exile.

- Sure, Bashur is the key, but Hawar Ciziri

has the Kurd's majority behind him

and he has given the green light for the negotiations.

- That's good.

But you know there's no way I'm doing it

besides I'm not even allowed to do anything

during the prosecution process.

- Everything is negotiable.

- Is it?

- Ann-Mari, you're born to do this and you're be good at it.

Besides that, it's your only option.

You stay and they give you one month until

you get tangled up in your fish net or start climbing walls.

- Anywhere but Turkey.

- You're the only one who can negotiate peace

between the Turks and the Kurds within this tight schedule.

- Why?

- [Theo] You know them well.

- Yes, but why the tight schedule.

- Berkay Esmer wants to look good

in the eyes of the Western countries.

- Well, the conflict's been going on for over three decades.

Why now?

- Lead him out of the caves he has driven himself into.

- Oh, stop talking in riddles.

Tell me what this is really about.

- Turkey is part of NATO, and it's hard for NATO

to watch how violently the Turks treat the Kurds.

This is the latest info about the peace negotiations

in Oslo, and it's confidential.

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I've arranged proper financing for you.

You choose your best team.

And, don't worry about the prosecution process.

We'll handle it.

Ann-Mari, this will be your biggest case ever.

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Great, listen, we have to move fast.

We need you and your team.

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- [Emilia] Please come in.

- Hi, thank you.

- I am Emilia Engblom.

- Diyar Amedi.

- So nice to finally meet you.

- I've heard a lot of good things about you.

- [Emilia] Yeah, me too.

- Hi, Ann-Mari.

- You've grown up.

- [Diyar] Yeah, it's the touch of gray in my hair.

- I prepared a short memo of the Oslo negotiations.

The negotiations broke down because of an information leak,

and they took all the necessary precautions

and still it came out, we need to be very careful.

We don't share any information online

and we do this the old way.

Sorry, I need one more thing.

- She's great.

- Of course, please.

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Last week I had a meeting in Helsinki,

where it was decided that Hamini Steel.

Okay, let's role play,

your Esmer, your Ciziri, go.

- You must stop seeing Kurds as terrorists.

There are millions of Kurds

who has nothing to do with the guerrilla movement.

- How can you guarantee that

the terrorist movement will be over?

- You must show the way.

- Did you just relate me to Kurdish gorillas?

That's insulting.

- She's right, be careful.

Ciziri would not ever insult us when we're face-to-face.

- Well, let me explain, we just had parliamentary elections.

Now, Kurdish politician got a massive amount

of votes in many areas, a majority, right?

So what happened?

A few days after, you decided

that there would be reelections.

The first round of votes didn't count anymore.

Now, when the reelections happened, Turkish police

made sure that there was traffic jams,

accidents, routes closed, people were being arrested,

media cut up, all kinds of obstacles,

so that the Kurds couldn't get to the voting places.

So what I'm saying is you must show the way.

- How can you guarantee that there won't be any guerillas?

Better conditions are impossible

if you threaten Turkey citizens.

- Simple, if you guarantee us the same rights

as the Turkey citizens have,

we can make a deal about the disarmament.

- Now, think about the bomber, twin torches.

- Well as Ms-

- Don't put words in my mouth.

- But I'm just saying that you approved

the negotiations only because it would

secure Kurdish votes in the upcoming elections.

Come on, it's obvious.

- We also want to have this peace agreement made.

- Really.

- Guys, keep it concrete.

Esmer is a dictator.

- So fresh is his power.

- Emilia, that's obvious, but that's not concrete.

Stay purely practical.

What is causing the fear

that's standing in the way of peace?

Okay.

- [Ann-Mari] Now switch places.

- NATO has a large number of military bases in Turkey.

NATO bases plus Turkish army base surround Kurdish areas.

We live under constant threat.

We want you to accept us having our own military forces.

- Impossible, Turkey, doesn't need NATO.

NATO needs Turkey.

- [Emilia] Esmer now.

- What.

- You are Esmer now.

- I'm, oh fuck, sorry, okay.

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- Go on.

- Give us greater political turf.

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- [Emilia] Let's go again, and Diyar,

you can't let your personal feelings takeover.

You're getting way too heated.

Okay?

I'll be Esmer

- Okay.

- That's for sure yes, but what would Ciziri do?

- Empowered, we want our own nation-state.

We are the largest ethnic group without a nation-state,

and by we, I mean, 60 million Kurds.

We are not are mountains as your predecessor thought.

- You want me to take yours?

- Yeah, thanks.

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- Yes.

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Where exactly did you find them?

I understand.

Classify it as secret.

Yeah.

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- Take the next right.

We'll try to go around the city.

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- Yes, yes I am, no, no-

- No, stay in the car.

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- [Emilia] Have you been in the field yourself.

- Not much, you.

- I've done volunteer work in refugee camps quite a lot,

but mostly I enjoy working with Ann-Mari.

- [Diyar] How long have you been working with her?

- Seven years, with some gaps.

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- Sorry.

- That's a beautiful son.

- Thank you.

Hello.

277 - [Driver] What if we take a left?

- Yeah, that's good.

That's good, take a left here

and then at the next intersection you turn right.

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- Can I see that?

- [Ann-Mari] What do you know about Binav Bashur?

- Interpol has reported no sightings of him for four months.

- What do your sources say?

- I don't know.

- If we want to achieve permanent peace we need him.

- I know, but it's impossible.

I mean, in the circumstances it's, it's too risky.

- You do know why you're here?

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302 - It should take a moment.

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- The basic rules, during the negotiations you don't speak.

Your job is to write everything down.

Diyar, you take down the facts.

Emilia, you concentrate on the emotions.

If anything, urgent comes to your mind, you write me a note.

If they were to ask you something,

you'll wait for me to answer.

Whatever the subjects turn out to be,

you don't show any reactions, any expressions.

You're well-prepared but they will surprise you.

Diyar, you'll be sitting on my left side,

Emilia right side, make sure my chair

is a bit higher than everybody else's/

You'll both sit behind me.

- Good luck.

- The only goal of the first meeting

is to secure a second meeting

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One, the Turkish troops must cease using violence

and withdraw from the Kurdish areas.

Two, the radical Kurdish Party must

cease hostilities and lay down their weapons,

which international troops will later take over.

And three, we will agree on rules

by which when conformed to no group of people

will be subjected to the arbitrariness of the other.

So far, do you have any questions?

- If anything in these negotiations

points at independence for the Kurdish region,

we shall withdraw immediately.

- We shall not negotiate in surrendering the arms,

unless Turkey acknowledges the attacks

on the Kurdish villages and still considers

the investigation to the mass grave

from two weeks ago in the center.

- What new mass grave are you referring to?

- The one found in Sirnak, 150 dead.

- How did we not to know about the mass grave?

- There is no mention of it here.

- Look at field reports from the Sirnak region.

There's a refugee camp close by and patrols in the terrain.

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- Where?

- Diyar, you find it, we're in a hurry now

- Yes, it's here.

- Diplomatic transport coming form Sirnak.

Three cars, skeletal remains,

request for investigation filed.

Permission classified as secrets.

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I'll negotiate with both parties separately.

Call Maarit.

I was informed that you're willing to negotiate peace.

and you did mention, so yourself previously.

- I came to the negotiations because I want

to hear what new things NATO has to offer me.

- I operate on a UN mandate.

- Same people.

Kurdish terrorists attacked the country's government

with violence, they've done so for 30 years now.

I defend my country and my people against

the terrorist and I got blamed for it, why?

Because Russia wants Turkey as its pawn

and the United States wants to steer us.

But we can't be silenced, we are too big and you know it.

- This is my proposal for the matters

to be agreed upon in the peace.

It's been approved by the UN Security Council

and I'm sure the people in NATO have seen it already.

You have the time to look it over.

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You know, Bashur is not mentioned at all.

A permanent peace is possible only if he will

come here and negotiate on it.

- Print out the same agenda again.

Add Binav Bashur to the list.

- What happened?

- Well, she handed over our list to Esmer

and she called it our proposal, the draft.

- [Ann-Mari] We will discuss these points.

- It says nothing about mass graves here.

- Sometimes the way to the truth

takes another route than planned.

- If the mass graves are investigated

we can negotiate about permanent peace treaty.

- You know, you cannot have deadly loss,

that the rest of the world consider a terrorist organization

and negotiate peace at the same time.

396 - If you prefer to speak Kurdish,

I'll bring in an interpreter.

Would you like that?

Shall we continue then?

- Have you ever lose something dear to your heart?

Investigating the mass grave is not

about dwelling in the past, you have to remember that.

Each Kurd has wounds.

If this peace treaty is about placing plaster

on those wounds, you know, that is a waste of time.

- The country called Kurdistan has never officially existed.

- We want sovereignty, a chance to live in peace.

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- It's a good hotel.

It's seems I'm going for a run.

- This will be a long process.

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- Hi, how are you?

- Reading about Bashur.

He's an exceptional character.

How do you feel about today's meeting?

- Mixed feelings.

- But they both came.

- It's a good start.

- It's a very good sign.

Don't fall asleep in this bar.

- You don't think that'd be a good time?

- No.

- Okay, can I get a beer?

- Yes.

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- Welcome, I hope the journey went well.

We'll start unloading the cargo straight away.

If that's okay with you?

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- Great

Thank you for your cooperation.

Have a safe journey back home.

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