Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• 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.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Religious, Views, Historical

• However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Election, Parliament

• Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perspective, Islam, Democracy

• 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.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Law, Democracy, Separation

• The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Perception, Democracy, World

• The US and the European Union needs to help in the translation of the demand for democracy into a political will.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Political Will, Europe, Democracy

• I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Debate, Method

• But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Islamic, Views, Democracy

  "Erdogan: 'Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View'". The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

• 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

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Middle East, Achieve

• The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously, this would be a formidable journey

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  Journey, Self, Creating

• In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Bars, Levels

  "Democracy in the Middle East, PluralIism in Europe: Turkish View". Recep Tayyip Erdogan, The Turkish Weekly, October 12, 2004.

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