QUOTES by Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Those who stand on our side in the fight against terrorism are our friend. Those on the opposite side are our enemy.
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A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
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I'm calling on the United States: what kind of strategic partners are we, that you can still host someone whose extradition I have asked for?
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Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
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Those who claim we buy oil from Daesh are obliged to prove it. If not, you are slanderer.
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A simple caricature, a simple sketch - that's fine. There's nothing wrong with that. But if you draw up a caricature... if you associate that subject with the things you're not supposed to, then, of course, you can't expect that to be acceptable.
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As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.
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I am one of the first political leaders officially declaring that anti-Semitism is a crime. I expect an official declaration that Islamophobia is a crime against humanity as well.
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I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.
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You cannot defend a terrorist group just because they are fighting Daesh.
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I have already said that I find the coalition air strikes to be insufficient. A ground intervention will be necessary to overcome Daesh.
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The fact that a woman is attached to her professional life should not prevent her from being a mother.
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A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.
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I consider personally the election of Barack Hussein Obama to have very great symbolic meaning. A Muslim and a Christian name - so in his name there is a synthesis, although people from time to time want to overlook that, and they do it intentionally.
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Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
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During the Gezi protests and PKK terror campaigns, the unity and solidarity of the Turkish nation were attacked.
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Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.
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We have a very significant number of Jewish citizens, and they have always been safe and secure where they are in Turkey.
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Turkey must feel at ease. It mustn't say, 'For me, it's the European Union at all costs.' That's my view.
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In this country, there is a segregation of Black Turks and White Turks. Your brother Tayyip belongs to the Black Turks.
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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
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Among leaders in Europe there are those who have prejudices against Turkey, like France and Germany.
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Satire, whether it be satire or not, everything has to have boundaries.
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What should be targeted is a concept of organic, and not just mechanic, democracy that preserves the rule of law, separation of powers, and that is participatory and pluralistic.
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Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
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Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.
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My nation wants the death penalty. That is the decision of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey.
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It is impossible to preserve my friendship with people who are allegedly leaders when they are attacking their own people, shooting at them, using tanks and other forms of heavy weaponry.
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Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.
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According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.
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A woman who abstains from motherhood saying 'I am working' means she is in fact rejecting motherhood.
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Before anything else, I'm a Muslim. As a Muslim, I try to comply with the requirements of my religion. I have a responsibility to God, who created me, and I try to fulfill that responsibility. But I try now very much to keep this away from my political life, to keep it private.
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A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting religion, and religion is so supreme that it cannot be exploited or taken advantage of.
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My legal bond with the A.K.P. may have ended the day I took the presidential oath of office, but my bonds of love have never ended and never will.
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Our country and our nation have again only one message to those who attack us - you will not succeed!
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I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
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The foundations of democratic transition should be laid in accordance with a sincere and committed strategy that is supported by various policy tools, and implemented wisely.
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