Yet behind her determination to "never surrender" to terrorism, and to meet violence head on, there were nuances.
Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said his government would never surrender to Kurdish militants but he was cautiously hopeful that the talks could succeed.
Are the sceptics who said that Arabs could not handle democracy and would inevitably elect nasty people who would never surrender power being proved horribly right?
In 1940, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made his famous "We shall fight on the beaches... we shall never surrender" speech to the House of Commons.
The Japanese believed in the unwritten Samurai code of conduct, known as Bushido, which held that the true warrior was willing to die for the Emperor and would never surrender.
He came close to recognising that, since India will never surrender its portion of Kashmir, the line of control ought to become the permanent border, a solution that most Indians but so far few Pakistanis would accept.
The first lesson then is never to surrender or give any quarter to lies.
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"I don't believe that there was any kind of surrender because we are not ready and we will never be ready to surrender Kosovo as an integral part and spiritual cradle of the Yugoslavian nation, " Vladislav Jovanovic, Yugoslavia's charge d'affaires at the United Nations, told Associated Press Television News.
And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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They say the bomb should never have been used under any circumstances, and Japan was ready to surrender anyway.
Karl Timmermann became the first American officer to cross the tottering Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine when "the inner door to Germany had swung wide, never to be shut again" and on to the final German surrender at 2 a.m. on Monday, May 7.
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