Recep Tayyip Erdogan Quotes - Page 2

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• Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites, but Islamic sites.

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  Caves, Site, Tombs

  "Rachel's Tomb was never Jewish". www.jpost.com. March 7, 2010.

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• Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.

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  Israel, Mosaics, Elements

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

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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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  Country, Political, Middle East

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• Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.

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  Law, Political, Elements

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• We are seeing with great grief that America remains quiet as Turkey struggles against terrorism. Because there were promises given to us, and they need to be kept. If not, we can take care of our own business.

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  Grief, Struggle, Turkeys

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• They cry press freedom, but (the raids) have nothing to do with it. We have no concern about what the EU might say, whether the EU accepts us as members or not, we have no such concern. Please keep your wisdom to yourself.

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  Freedom, Might, Cry

  "Can Turkey under Erdoğan any longer" by Simon Tisdall, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2014.

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• I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

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  People, Usual, Offensive

  "Turkey’s Many Occupational Hazards" by Ozan Varol, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2014.

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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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  Young Generation, Light, People

  Source: perspectivebd.com

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• I am against nuclear weapons, regardless of whether they are in the hands of Iran or Israel or any Western country. But obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.

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  Country, Mass Destruction, Israel

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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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  Issues, Citizens, World

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• There is an attempt to tarnish Turkey by using press freedom when it is in fact measures taken against terrorism, i dispute this. Nowhere in Europe or in other countries is there a media that is as free as the press in Turkey.

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  Country, Freedom, Taken

  "Dutch reporter held on terrorism charges in Turkey", www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2015.

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• Germany and Turkey are two countries that need each other. As political leaders we will leave our offices one day, but our people will remain and have to get along with each other. So we shouldn’t give them negative messages.

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  Country, Turkeys, Two

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have to respect the Turkish Republic's laws

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  Law, Republic, Social Media

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• If during their education our youths become alienated from their language, history, ancestors, culture and civilization, it means there is a very serious educational problem there.

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  Education, Mean, Civilization

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• There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.

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  Lying, Media, Trouble

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• When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

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  Education, Religious, Racism

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• I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

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  Views, Arabia, Followers

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

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  Political Will, Europe, Democracy

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• A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

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  Fashion, People, Desire

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• It is not a process of bargaining or give-and-take. The peace process is not about giving concessions. We will not allow any step which would hurt the memories of our martyrs.

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  Peace, Hurt, Memories

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

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  Islamic, Views, Democracy

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

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• The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.

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  World, States, Free Market

  "If the EU Doesn't Want Us, They Should Say it Now". Der Spiegel interview, www.nytimes.com. April 16, 2007.

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• We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.

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  Education, Taken, Decision

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• If Twitter, Youtube & Facebook will be honest; if they'll stop being so immoral, stop attacking families, we'll support them

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  Support, Honest, Social Media

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• Our bilateral relations and our agreement [between Turkey and America] on the extradition of criminals should dominate and precede actually any inclusion into any list.

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  Agreement, Turkeys, America

  Source: perspectivebd.com

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