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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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Friendship
People
Impossible
Own
Democracy is like a streetcar. When you come to your stop, you get off.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
You
Democracy
Stop
Your
Jerusalem is holy to three religions. You have to respect that.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Respect
You
Religions
Three
Family planning, birth control, no Muslim family can practice such an understanding.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Family
Practice
Control
Understanding
But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
World
Blame
Political
Marathon
There is no Kurdish problem.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Problem
Kurdish
Whatever our Lord says, whatever our beloved Prophet says, we shall follow that path.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
People
World
Ignore
Building
Every country needs a strong leader in order to progress.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Progress
Leader
Strong
Country
We have never done anything to stop freedom of expression or freedom of press.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Democracy
Words
Meet
Achieve
If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
I Am
Humanity
Political
Crime
Turkey will be in Cyprus forever.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Will
Forever
Turkey
Cyprus
We, as Turkey, call on Europe to respect human rights and democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Respect
Democracy
Human Rights
Human
In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Matter
Group
Exercise
Not Fair
Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Cannot
Middle
Middle East
Experts
There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Tools
Strategy
Sincere
Policy
However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Progress
Country
Speed
Accept
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