Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes
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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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In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
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Obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.
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However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
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In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
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Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood.
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There is now a scourge that is called Twitter.
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If the people allow something to happen, it's the right thing.
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Turkey wants to be treated by the same standards as other countries. If you compare us to some other newly accepted EU members our performance, especially in terms of the economy, is much better.
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The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.
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The relations between Russia and Turkey entered into a really positive stage. I am sure that steps we both take will widen our cooperation.
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I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose such a development. Where is the justice in that?
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The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
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If an individual is a terrorist, then you should not be promoting those people and putting them under a good light, if you will, and promoting to the young generation to come. That will only be spoiling the young generation.
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We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
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The Muslim world and its subset the countries of the Middle East have been left behind in the marathon of political, economic and human development. For that, there is a tendency to blame others as the primary cause.
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Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
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70 percent of Turkeys citizens favored the EU; today it is only 50 percent. If you ask if they want Turkey to become an EU member, 60 to 65 percent still say yes. But if you ask: Do you believe Europe will accept Turkey, 60 percent say no.
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Even in the Western world, one cannot argue that the ideal has been achieved given the existence of issues like the integration, participation and representation of Muslim citizens, and occasional but lingering anti-Semitism.
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My visit to the United States has also given me the opportunity to emphasize the objective of establishing close and intensive links between the Turkish and American peoples, scholars and businessmen.
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Turkey is the gateway to the east for Europe, and the gateway to Europe for the east. We have a bridging function that Europe shouldn't underestimate.
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If the nuclear program is indeed meant only for civil purposes, then it is wrong to impose sanctions.
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If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute their people do not remain standing.
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There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.