Synonyms for martyrs
mar·tyrs

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1. List of paraphrases for "martyrs":

   martyr, martyred, shuhada

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1. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan:

   We told the Russian authorities you are not party to this it is totally the regime and do not stand in our way. Because we have martyrs, we can not remain silent. We will continue to respond, including with our F-16s, our howitzers, our artillery, it is all in the field firing on the targets determined by our national intelligence.

2. Umar Mansoor:

   [The school was] preparing those generals, brigadiers and majors who killed and arrested so many fighters, if our women and children died as martyrs your children will not escape. If you attack us we will take revenge for the innocents.

3. Giuseppe Mazzini:

   Every Age has its own peculiar faith. Any attempt to translate into facts the mission of one Age with the machinery of another, can only end in an indefinite series of abortive efforts. Defeated by the utter want of proportion between the means and the end, such attempts might produce martyrs, but never lead to victory.

4. The Taliban:

   If our women and children died as martyrs your children will not escape. If you attack us we will take revenge for the innocents.

5. Martin McKee:

   These people are the exceptions, but what can you do ? You don't really want to make martyrs of these people -- if they choose to( gather), they're putting themselves and others at risk.