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Turkish - Politician Born: February 26, 1954

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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Friendship People Impossible Own

Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.

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You Democracy Stop Your

Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.

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Respect You Religions Three

Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.

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Family Practice Control Understanding

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

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Culture Democracy View Cannot

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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You Religion Political Party

If you're the leader, you have to communicate the message of immortality to your people. Because I believe if a leader hides behind a rock, then the people will hide behind a mountain.

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You People Believe Mountain

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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World Blame Political Marathon

There is no Kurdish problem.

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Problem Kurdish

Whatever our Lord says, whatever our beloved Prophet says, we shall follow that path.

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Path Follow Lord Whatever

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Being in the European Union, we would be building bridges between the 1.5 bn people of Muslim world to the non-Muslim world. They have to see this. If they ignore it, it brings weakness to the E.U.

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People World Ignore Building

Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.

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Progress Leader Strong Country

We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.

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Freedom Stop Never Done

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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Democracy Words Meet Achieve

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

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People Believe Will Accept

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 Humanity Political Crime

Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.

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Will Forever Turkey Cyprus

We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.

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Respect Democracy Human Rights Human

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

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Democracy Words Bar Level

So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I was sought - people wanted me to come to those posts. I am talking about all my positions: mayor of Istanbul, chairman of the party, prime minister.

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Me I Am People Party

Attempts by one ethnic group to exercise sovereignty over another are not fair. It doesn't matter if that ethnicity is Kurdish, Turkish, Arabic, Chaldean or whatever.

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Matter Group Exercise Not Fair

Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.

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Cannot Middle Middle East Experts

There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.

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World Demand Muslim Middle East

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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Tools Strategy Sincere Policy

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

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Alone Democracy Cannot Existence

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered.

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Progress Country Speed Accept

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