World Leaders Comment On 2015

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Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post: The turbulent story of 2015, as told by 15 world leaders

Here's a guide to a year of conflict and discord, through the words of some of the world's leaders.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras: "We have a great opportunity for a new beginning."

The leftist Greek politician's Syriza party won landmark elections in January. Tsipras preached a new way forward for Greece after years of crippling austerity and compounding debt. But a failure to reach an accord with European Union authorities in Brussels has led to a return to the grinding status quo, which saw Tsipras contest and once more win elections in September, though with a humbler mandate.