Top 80 Erdogan's Quotes
#1. Almost half of the Turkish population believes it is not legitimate to criticize the government. Interestingly, this correlates with the number of supporters of Erdogan's government.
Elif Safak
#2. Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparency are among the indispensable elements that are the imperatives of democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#3. Erdogan wants an old-fashioned Islam, if you will, for lack of a better term.
Rush Limbaugh
#4. 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
#5. The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
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#6. [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan is an adherent of realpolitik. He knows that international relations are not built on the strength of unilateral demands, but on solutions that are in everybody's best interest.
Martin Schulz
#7. We are against the majority tyrannizing the minority. But we are definitely against the minority tyrannizing the majority.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#8. 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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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. In other words, the bar should be maintained at the level of a pluralistic and participatory democracy.
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#13. Cave of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb were not and never will be Jewish sites.
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#14. 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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#15. Several experts on the Middle East concur that the Middle East cannot be democratized.
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#16. A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.
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#17. It is essential that policy instruments be developed that would firmly establish democratization on the basis of social consensus and enable transformation on stable grounds.
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#19. A lasting solution to this problem will have an exceptionally positive influence foremost on the peoples of Palestine and Israel, as well as on the region and the international community.
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#20. 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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#21. The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers ...
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#22. If we look at history, we will see that regimes which persecute [their people] do not remain standing.
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#23. 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 ... These are usual things.
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#24. The best examples of lies can be found there. To me, social media is the worst menace to society.
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#25. The Kurdish problem is not only the problem of one part of my nation: it is a problem of every one of us, including myself.
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#26. Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.
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#27. Our politics is very masculine, very aggressive, and it's very polarizing. And the pace of this development has increased in recent years. Erdogan is, in my eyes, the most polarizing politician in recent Turkish political history.
Elif Safak
#29. 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
#30. Feminists are now being vilified in politics, erdogan used to speak more embracingly, saying he was the leader of everyone, whether they voted for him or not. He sounds as if he puts a distance between himself and half the nation.
Elif Safak
#31. 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
#32. I am very worried about this concentration of power, and it's not only because of Erdogan. We have the ballot box, but we don't have the culture of democracy. The government says: You see, we have the majority, we're entitled to do anything we want. But that's not democracy, that's majoritarianism.
Elif Safak
#33. In this context, social consensus, and institutions that embody this consensus, must be made effective in order for democratization not to be abused as a provisional instrument to establish an anti-democratic regime.
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#35. Everyone should unconditionally accept that Israel is an indispensable element of the Middle Eastern mosaic.
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#36. 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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#37. I am a person who is inclined to define relations between individuals based on principles.
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#39. When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.
Stephen Kinzer
#40. 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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#41. I am aware of the thesis that the United States has long since invested exclusively in stability and this has obviated democratic transformation in the Middle East.
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#42. 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.
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#43. Obviously some states are allowed to have weapons of mass destruction while others are not.
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#44. The Erdogan government's first major step outside of the U.S. alliance was during the Bush Administration, when it wouldn't let Washington use Turkey as a launching ground for U.S. troops entering Iraq in 2003.
Elliott Abrams
#45. In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.
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#46. It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.
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#47. But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.
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#48. 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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#49. My legal bond with the A.K.P. may have ended the day I took the presidential oath of office, but my bonds of love have never ended and never will.
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#50. President Erdogan is aiming Turkey at a Sharia nation. That's where he wants to go. He is a Sharia law, full-fledged, one percent Islamist.
Rush Limbaugh
#51. 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.
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#53. We have taken a strategic decision to gather education activities under a single roof.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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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#57. There is a heated debate in Turkey these days over whether the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is furthering democracy or rolling it back.
Mustafa Akyol
#58. 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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#59. I cannot understand how sensible people still defend Facebook, YouTube and Twitter
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#60. 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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#61. You cannot put women and men on an equal footing. It is against nature. They were created differently. Their nature is different. She should not laugh loudly in front of all the world and should preserve her decency at all times.
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#62. If Recep Tayyip Erdogan cannot placate ISIS, how are we ever gonna be able to? And placate is clearly what John Kerry, who once served in Vietnam, and Barack Hussein O and Hillary Clinton think is the only thing we have to do is placate them. Because we're at fault, see.
Rush Limbaugh
#64. 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.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#65. They came to me with this case of Twitter ignoring case of smeared housewife
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#67. There is a trouble called Twitter, the finest lies are here. Nowadays, social media is actually the headache of societies.
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#68. 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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#69. 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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#70. This (presidential) system will not bear any resemblance to dictatorships under the same name in Africa and Asia, (It) will be unique to Turkey, it will be like a bee making honey, taking something from every flower and giving us a taste of a truly different honey.
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#71. My own daughters weren't able to study in Turkey because of their headscarves, so they went to the United States.
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#72. 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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#73. When Erdogan assumed control, he gave power to a wave of Islamism, strengthened by Ozal, that had been creeping back into Turkish life under the radar screen of official Kemalism.
Robert D. Kaplan
#74. There exists an unmistakable demand in the Middle East and in the wider Muslim world for democratization.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
#75. However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.
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#76. 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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#77. Invariably, also a Palestinian state should live side by side with Israel within recognized and secure borders and the security and prosperity of the Palestinian people must be guaranteed.
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#78. Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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